Prepare for Your Next Job Interview

From time to time I’m on the employer side of a job interview for software development positions and similar. It is certainly an interesting experience. But it would be much more fun when the candidates came a little prepared. So here are a couple of things to ponder when you are heading for an interview: [...]

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Is ISO 9001 obsolete?

I just finished ‘Here Comes Everybody’, a must-read for anybody trying to understand what is going on with all this social media stuff. One point Clay Shirky makes, is that  the various web2.0 tools make failing cheap. If in the 80s you had an idea for a group to form, you had a lot of [...]

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Do we need an Agile Maturity Model?

In a post on developer works Scott Ambler proposes a “Agile Process Maturity Model” (APMM), if you are asking “WTF is that supposed to be?” Scott tries to answer that in his first sentence: The goal of the Agile Process Maturity Model (APMM) is to provide a framework which provides context for the plethora of [...]