As we're growing our development team in InvoiceFair I've gone through a process of budget approval for hiring people. The process is pretty lightweight, but in an effort to be as thorough as possible, I put together an org chart, some lightweight role descriptions and so on. To be honest it was all going well,... Continue Reading →
When I find myself putting a new team or department together, one of the first areas I pay attention to is identity as, in my experience, it can be one of the most powerful motivators for any group of people. As we start to build our our technical team here in InvoiceFair, team identity has... Continue Reading →
I don't claim to have a deep understanding of politics, local, national or geopolitics. I save my comments on the people, the process and the results of politics for private conversations. As a result I can't speak with any authority on the factors that are at play in Ukraine. I have not studied the Minsk... Continue Reading →
"What if I told you we were putting a team together?"Tony Stark aka Iron Man "I'm putting together a team, people with special abilities..."Bruce Wayne aka Batman When we're recruiting a new team, or augmenting an existing team, this is what we want candidates to think. We want them to believe they're joining an elite... Continue Reading →
A candidate dropped out of our recruitment process last week. This was particularly tough as I had approached the candidate directly (we had worked in the same company a number of years ago) and we had a number of conversations on the role which I think we both felt was a good fit. Truth be... Continue Reading →
Bows and Arrows 