I mentioned in my last post that I was interviewing a lot of people as we look to expand the InvoiceFair technical team. One of the key roles we're hiring is an Agile Coach, which those of you who know me will recognise as a role upon which I might have some specific opinions. Not... Continue Reading →
I'm involved in quite a few interviews as InvoiceFair grows its technical team. Interviews are always interesting; you get a sense of what's going on with the market, but also what people understand of the software development processes that operate within their own organisation and the subject of software development processes in general. Almost universally... Continue Reading →
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 →
What did Kevin Do? Did you happen to read "We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver? The entire book progresses hinting at some great tragedy, but without actually revealing the full extent until close to the end (at least that's how I remember it). The book, written in the form of letters from... Continue Reading →
How do we deal with the 'We've always done it this way' approach?
Bows and Arrows 