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Most important is to ignore a candidate's proven ability to deliver real solutions and instead focus on contrived tests that bear no resemblance to the actual work they'd be doing.…

Maybe some detail would help. I have interviewed and hired people, been a dev team lead and manager. I would consider a such a candidate enough to at least get them on the phone an…

Is there any common resource that people use for judging reputation of these programs? For what it's worth, the context for my question is for one in Boulder called RefactorU. I've…

Any detail on why not? A categorical or conditional no?

Would you hire somebody who's gone through a 10 week MEAN bootcamp as a junior developer, assuming they also had a running site they'd built, with source on GitHub?

Oh. And definitely bringing that domain knowledge (medical) is an advantage to getting into your first programming gig.

Yes! I never got a CS degree (or any degree, actually) and I've been professional programmer for more than 20 years. I've also been in the position of interviewing/hiring developer…

First off, each person shouldn't have "their" stories. The stories in the sprint backlog should be owned by and worked by the entire team. Second, not everything needs to be a stor…

The goal is to have a potentially shippable product increment at the end of each sprint. You don't have to release it to production; but it should certainly be made available for r…

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Another thing. Don't create "technical stories". They are not user stories and that undermines Scrum in a variety of ways. One important consideration, too, is this... Even if it's…

The first step, of course, is to stop accumulating it. As for dealing with what's already there... The right approach is to chip away at it incrementally, cleaning up related code …

I would suggest committing to just try it. If you give an honest try at putting quality and testing center-stage in your development, I think you'll start to see the value and even…