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Interview technique idea when hiring for an Agile job

19July2013GeekTieGuy2 CommentsAgile

I’m not sure if this is an original idea, but I came up with (and used it) today. Normally I’ve had my questions written down in a notebook and gone through them one by one, trying to steer the conversation, which sometimes causes abrupt and somewhat awkward transitions. Today I did this instead: Write down

Agile coaching approaches illustrated by Gordon Ramsay

10June2013GeekTieGuyAgile, Software development, Work in general

My oldest daughter recently introduced me to Gordon Ramsayâ€™s Fox TV show â€œKitchen Nightmaresâ€. It was the episode on Amyâ€™s Baking Company, and we sat and watched it together on YouTube. I couldnâ€™t believe what I was seeing! The participants in the show engaged in almost nonstop verbal abuse, miscommunication, denial and dysfunction. It was

A swan song for 2012 and WPF

1January2013GeekTieGuy4 CommentsMicrosoft, Opinion, Software, Software development, Windows 7, Windows 8, WPF

I intended this to be my fifth and last post of 2012. Life intervened, and it turns out this will be my first post of 2013 instead. Blogging obviously took a back seat to other things last year. Sadly (seen from a certain perspective), I spent a lot of my time this past year reading

Batch download BUILD 2012 videos

4November2012GeekTieGuyMicrosoft, Software, Software development

I didnâ€™t get to go to //build this year (sniff), so Iâ€™m going to download a bunch of session recordings for offline viewing. One way to do this is to use a PowerShell script (I found one here, based on this). Last year, I just used the script as it was. This time, Iâ€™ve modified