program selection system

Some Extreme Programming practices — such as paired programming and open and collaborative workspaces — present challenges to the traditional hiring process as most interview candidates have trouble imagining the transition to such an environment. A traditional interview process might yield candidates who are technically competent, yet ill-prepared and perhaps even unwilling to undertake such a dramatic change to their own ideas of software development practices. This is obviously a problem.

Even the people who claim experience on Agile teams are not necessarily working the way your team works. And, because not everyone is using Agile approaches, some people who aren’t using strictly Agile approaches may be perfect for your team. If you’ve tried to hire people recently, you know you can’t reply on people with or without “Agile” experience to be just right for your open position—and it wasn’t a question of technical skill.