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Learning how to be an ally to non-binary folk

December 21, 2021 / Lisa Crispin / being an ally, conferences, culture, diversity, hiring, inclusiveness, safety / No Comments

This is my third post sharing my biggest takeaways from Agile Testing Days. OK, I’m pretty slow, and, I hope my learning might inspire someone else’s. I first got to know Bruce (the legend) on social media and via Ministry of Testing. She was an amazing host for an online TestBash. Bruce makes awesome videos […]

Starting a new job in the pandemic

July 20, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / Distributed Teams, hiring, onboarding, remote team members / 4 Comments

Lena Pejgan invited me to join her in her pair blogging series (see her first post for some background). We quickly decided to write about starting a new job in the pandemic – which we both did! Lena is a manager, so she has perspective for hiring new people during these strange new times. I’m […]

Improving our interview process

October 7, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, hiring, interview / 9 Comments

Last May, we were asked to enlarge our small team by hiring another tester and another programmer. We’ve made a few hiring decisions in the past which turned out to be mistakes, so we decided to enhance our interview process. After a lot of brainstorming and research, we came up with some ideas to try. […]

We’re Hiring

July 4, 2011 / Lisa Crispin / hiring, Whole Team Approach / 10 Comments

I consider our software development team to be one of the coolest on the planet. I’ve met a lot of teams around the planet – well, ok, only three continents – and I can only think of one that might be cooler than ours. We’re a small team, we have a great track record for […]