Your company is expanding, and to keep up, it’s up to you to grow your software engineering team. So you start thinking about the type of talent you need, and how to attract, screen, interview, recruit and retain highly-qualified candidates. Here’s what...
A recent article in the NY Times takes Google to task for employing a “shadow” workforce of temps. It’s not a nuanced piece of business journalism and I take exception to many of its implied conclusions. Here are some of my criticisms and I encourage others in our...
This article is the second part of a two-part article. For lessons 1-4, see Part 1. A quick recap of Part 1’s key points follows. Fast growth is a great problem to have. You may be experiencing viral success, attracting new investment, or successfully pivoting to a...
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...
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...
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:...
