99: Improve Your Agile Hiring Practices

Zach Bonaker (@ZachBonaker) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined Ryan Ripley (@ryanripley) to discuss ways to improve your agile hiring practices when interviewing Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.

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Zach is a self-described “benevolent trouble-maker” and seeks to foster servant leadership that cultivates growth, learning, and discovery. He is a systems thinker who shares his thoughts on his blog – Agile Out Loud. Zach is great at pushing agile thinking forward and has authored many popular posts on next generation agile theories and practices.

Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub.

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Ryan Ripley is teaming up with Professional Scrum Trainer, Todd Miller to teach the PSM-II this year. Whether you are a CSM or a PSM-I, this Advanced Scrum Master Course is the next step on the Scrum master journey, created and present by trainers from scrum.org – The Home of Scrum.

• Indianapolis, IN on October 3-4
• Denver, CO on October 17-18
• Johannesburg, South Africa on November 15-16
• Washington D.C. on December 6-7
• Tampa, FL on December 11-12

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In this episode you’ll discover:

• Combining the thinking and doing of agile
• It’s the age of the knowledge worker…what now?
• The importance of meeting people where they are at and helping them move forward

Links from the show:

• Business Agility 2019 – https://businessagility.institute/attend/business-agility-conference-13-14-march-2019-new-york-city/

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