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5 Easy Steps to Keep Your Engineers Engaged

Wrike

As an engineer, you’d be lucky to have everything go perfectly: the project’s cool, the stack is relevant, and the tasks are at a sweet spot of competence/difficulty/interesting ratio at the same time. 2020 became the year of the pandemic. It takes an incredible amount of effort, time, and money to hire a new engineer.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

And what was fascinating about, and really sort of formed, solidified some of my way of thinking about these things, in some cases, those constraints, as we would identify them, they would be identified as explicit contracts between systems. And then, so LeadingAgile will have its 10-year anniversary August first, 2020, yeah.

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9 Best Practices for Recruiting Developers With Skills Tests

Teamweek

When hiring developers, you need to be on the lookout for a combination of hard, technical , and soft skills that will add value to your company. That’s where the skills-first hiring process comes in. Hiring developers gets easier when you modernize your recruitment process. The language itself was created in 1959.