by David Brian Ward | May 21, 2019 | Human Capital
Fast growth is a great problem to have. You may be experiencing viral success, attracting new investment, or successfully pivoting to a broader business model. Or all of the above: Good for you! You will begin, no doubt, by recruiting the best developers you worked...
by Robert Boyd | Dec 10, 2018 | Business Intelligence, Human Capital, Management & Leadership
Stop and Consider Before you take on the next assignment – Stop and Consider – is this what you really ought to be doing? The Association for Computing Machinery is not known for inspirational exhortations to a higher calling. But, in their dry, analytical way they...
by David Brian Ward | Mar 28, 2017 | Human Capital
Equating your human workforce with “capital” is only slightly less demeaning than referring to them as “meat”. Still, this report by Deloitte deserves some attention: https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/focus/human-capital-trends.html. Here’s my summary:...
by David Brian Ward | Jul 1, 2016 | Human Capital
A recent World Economic Forum study explains how HR professionals are addressing the technical staffing skills gap. Here’s a shout out to Gary Beach of the WSJ, who rightly calls them out the lack of innovation, imagination, insight or anything other...
by David Brian Ward | May 17, 2016 | Human Capital
Everybody knows that employees cost way less than consultants… But do they? How would that change hiring technical talent if what everybody knows wasn’t true? Hiring an Employee: True Real Dollar Costs Most technical managers have never been...
by David Brian Ward | May 11, 2016 | Agile Engineering, Human Capital
In our last post, we wrote about getting your criteria right for strategic technical hiring, and provide guidelines for determining the right category of resource. Still, even after learning those lessons, getting employees in the door when they have so many lucrative...
