Hiring for an Agile Team
Would you like to hire people who fit your Agile team? Even the people who claim experience on Agile teams are not necessarily working the way your team works. And, because not everyone is using Agile approaches, some people who aren’t using strictly Agile approaches may be perfect for your team. If you’ve tried to hire people recently, you know you can’t reply on people with or without “Agile” experience to be just right for your open position—and it wasn’t a question of technical skill.
Hiring for your team doesn’t have to be so frustrating. Instead, reframe your role as an interviewer to be that of a detective; in particular to define your culture in advance and determine in an interview whether a candidate can fit into that culture.
In this hands-on session, we’ll define the essential technical and non-technical skills for your position, identify your cultural issues, and practice interviewing so all your hires can be successful.
About Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman helps managers and leaders solve problems and seize opportunities.
She consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management.
Johanna writes two blogs: Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People. She is the author of:
- Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects.
- 2008 Jolt Productivity award winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
- Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)
- Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People
Find more of Johanna's articles and her blogs at www.jrothman.com.
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