Cheap Agile. Yum!
Given how carefully (over-cautiously, in many cases) potential new hires are interviewed and vetted, this disengagement strikes me as bizarre. Imagine an agency that does your grocery shopping for you, based on what they think you like to eat, or perhaps what will give instant gratification (cakes!) or more likely, what is cheap and available in bulk, e.g. Walmart over Whole Foods. It's all food, right?
Almost exactly three years ago I wrote some advice to clients looking to hire Agile consultants. It is advice worth repeating as, if anything, the situation is more dire now than it was back then, simply by the sheer force of numbers of companies jumping on the Agile band wagon. Here's the advice...
Palo Alto, 14/04/2015 comment