Hiring

How to Replace Departing Software Development Teams

What to do when you lose your team leader or key members of your team.

Companies, from time to time, will lose much of IT team due to one reason or another and the company is faced with somehow carrying on until it can rebuild the team. This article talks about the pain of team turnover and how to plot a path to recovery and your options can range from restructuring and hiring to fill the talent gap to completely outsourcing or somewhere in between with a hybrid approach.

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Pragmatic Hiring for IT teams

Over the years, I have hired somewhere around a hundred individuals at various software development companies. In the beginning, it was really tough to know how to hire the right candidates and, like anything else, one gets better with practice. Here, I try to shine light on the processes I use and why these tips work for me. These suggestions work particularly well for hiring IT staff.

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