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How to hire remote developers (with free remote job description template)

Planio

But while finding talented people isn’t hard–even when hiring remote employees–finding the right teammates for your company can be a battle. As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Step 1: Decide if it’s the right time to hire remote developers.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization. And the conversation really took a tone into really how do you get the teams involved? And for you hardcore engineers out there, not really so much talking to you. Thank you very much.

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8 Steps to Build and Manage a Remote Engineering Team

Planio

When it comes to hiring engineers, it’s hard to argue with the benefits of going remote. As Phil Freo , head of product and engineering at the fully remote startup, Close.io, told us: “When recruiting, it was hard to stand out in Silicon Valley among all the other tech startups hiring. Onboarding new remote engineers.

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Skills Of A CEO – Within Reach Of A Strategic PM?

The Strategic Project Manager

This post digs into this ambitious career objective, the required skills and attributes, strategy and project management as steppingstones to the CEO role, and attractive alternative career objectives. While CEO’s can sometimes have a bad reputation in terms of politics and ethics, most – and the best – really do not.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

There are numerous complaints about project management software since the inception of the IT industry. Some of the complaints elicit the counter productivity factor of task management tools. I know that being an Agile project manager at nTask sounds like a bit of cliché’, but at the same time, I cannot help but think otherwise.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.