General
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.
Delivering Software
Delivering software is a challenge. The complexity of getting the job done doesn’t really change whether you are building an internal system for your employer, or building a cloud service or an application that’s packaged and distributed. Software development is both an art and a science and how software gets built can range from the extraordinarily disciplined engineering approach NASA takes to kids with no formal trai...
