Recruiting Developers? Create An Awesome Candidate Experience tl;dr: If you're trying to attract awesome developers, you need to create an awesome candidate experience (CX). Something that makes them go "WOW!". It's like UX -- but for the people interviewing to join your team. It seems that every startup I know out there is trying to grow their development team. Yesterday, I sat in a HubSpot "Tech Talk". Ideas for Creating An Awesome Candidate Experience (CX) Here are some ideas for what I think would make a great candidate experience. 1. a) Recruiting great people is hard -- and competitive. 2. 3. a) On a scale of 0-10 how likely are you to recommend that a friend or family member interview here? b) Why did you give us that score? You don't have to use these specific questions -- the benefit is that NPS is that it is simple, and widely used as a way to measure customer satisfaction (or more accurately, customer delightion). 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. a) Thank them for their time and stop the interview process? 14. 15. What's Your Take? Whew!
Zappos, visite guidée de la maison du bonheur Qui? Tony Hsieh, CEO de Zappos et auteur de "Delivering Happiness" et Mandy, l'une des responsables des visites qui ont lieu chaque heure, par groupe de 6 personnes. Quoi ? La visite guidée du siège de Zappos, cette filiale d'Amazon spécialisée à l'origine dans les chaussures, qui vend à présent toutes sortes de produits, des cosmétiques aux couteaux de cuisine. Combien ? Comment ? Dès l'entrée, on sent que l'on visite un lieu spécial, entre Tinguely et Ben. Un bouton rouge est accompagné de la mention "Surtout ne pressez pas ce bouton". La déco est maison et proclame la culture d'entreprise "happiness is gold". Ceci n'est pas un décors de kermesse, mais le plateau des télévendeurs. A côté des statistiques d'appel, des items comme le nombre de cookies reçus en remerciement des clients. La "Royalty Room" est la pièce du coach gratuit. Le quilt de l'humilité orne les murs. Le bureau de Tony, dans la "Monkey Alley"a la même taille que celui des télévendeuses.
What's it like to work at GitHub? - opensoul.org I have been traveling a lot lately, and everywhere I go, I get this question: What’s it like to work at GitHub ? The simple answer: it is amazing ! Is it true that you work on whatever you want? Yes. Our “Director of Engineering” Ryan Tomayko writes : I don’t scale. Actually, you should just just go read his whole post right now . How is that not anarchy? It is. Anarchy works wonderfully in a small group of individuals with a high level of trust. How do you decide what to work on? Several people have asked in the comments and on twitter about this, so I though it was worth addressing. We have the advantage of using GitHub to build GitHub , so we are intimately aware of the strengths and weaknesses. The founders and other core people certainly help set a vision for where we are going, but we all take responsibility for deciding what to work on. What if the thing you want to ship does not benefit the company? What if someone is not doing their fair share? What are your biggest challenges?
User Roles User roles determine the access level or permissions of a person authorized (invited by an Administrator) to use a WordPress.com site. Summary Administrator – nothing is off limits* (see note below)Editor – has access to all posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, and links.Author – can write, upload photos to, edit, and publish their own posts.Contributor – has no publishing or uploading capability, but can write and edit their own posts until they are publishedFollower (public sites) / Viewer (private sites only) – can read and comment on posts and pages Each user role is capable of everything that a less powerful role is capable of. (In others words, Editors can do everything Authors can do, Authors can do everything Contributors can do, and so on.)All of your site’s user roles can see the stats: Administrators, Editors, Authors, and Contributors. When you install WooCommerce on the WordPress.com Business plan, two additional user roles are created: Customer and Shop Manager. Editor
3 Myths Busted about European vs. US Venture Capital success The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) just published a report dispelling many of the stereotypes and myths about the performance of Europe’s VCs. The conventional wisdom has been that Europe’s risk-adverse nature and difficult IPO environment has constrained the potential and success of Europe’s venture and startup communities. As the report points out, we often here the “Where is the European Facebook” argument all the time from across the pond without data to back it up, namely concrete data on how Europe’s VC sector has actually performed vs the US over time. Fortunately, the BVCA in conjunction with the London School of Economics have conducted a in-depth study of the situation, which examined 35,798 companies (34% in Europe and 66% in the States) receiving VC funding between 1980 (1995 in Europe) and 2011. The main findings of the study challenge three of the biggest myths head-on:
Rude VC: The importance of blogging for entrepreneurs The entrepreneurs with whom I work closely are familiar with my repeated encouragement that they blog on a regular basis. Perhaps encouragement, as my portfolio companies might suggest, is too soft a word; unrelenting nagging is more like it. I’ve often felt like a lone voice in the wilderness on this topic, at least in France. Indeed, maybe the blogging habit comes more naturally in cultures that don’t frown upon self-promotion. Despite my conviction, I’ve never been particularly effective in convincing my portfolio company CEO’s to adopt a blogging routine. Being able to innovate requires both intuition and creativity. But my summary doesn’t do justice to the way Charlie has articulated the importance of blogging for entrepreneurs, so I encourage to you to read his post and reference it on your permanent bookmark list of internet wisdom. Finally, for similar reasons, I submit that the importance of blogging extends to VCs too.
Il était une fois mon premier sprint planning La gestion de projet en méthode V ça vous parle carrément. La méthodologie agile (SCRUM plus précisément) c’est le sujet du moment. Que vous soyez un expert ou un novice, j’ai eu envie de vous faire partager un retour d’expérience à la fois réelle et « miraculeuse »… Vis ma vie agile Après 6 ans de gestion de projet, c’est le bonheur de pouvoir encore s’émerveiller et apprendre. 1er miracle Le porteur du besoin arrive en réunion avec un seul document : un fichier excel d’une trentaine de lignes. 2ème miracle Le Product Owner commence par expliquer le contexte du projet avec des mots simples. 3ème miracle Seules les user story contenant le plus de valeur sont traitées lors de la réunion. 4ème miracle Ce phénomène est probablement celui qui m’a donné le plus d’espoir : sur chacune des user story, l’équipe agile pose des questions et propose des adaptations éventuelles en fonction de la complexité, de la valeur, etc… => Les développeurs ont la parole ! 5ème miracle 6ème miracle
Leçon de storytelling appliqué à mon elevator pitch Parler mal business, ou sans passion, ça endort tout le monde, à commencer ceux qu’on aimerait bien impliquer sur nos projets. Non, pour saisir l’attention, il faut aussi savoir divertir. Pour divertir, on raconte des – chouettes – histoires. Le pitch, le storytelling et le pitch elevator Petit récapitulatif des termes à connaître, ou la rencontre du conte et du business (et pas seulement celui des marques). How to tell a powerful business story, par Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, managing director de The Strategic Message Donc vous êtes une femme, porteuse de projet, et vous avez des objectifs. Pensez votre pitch comme s’il s’agissait de la bande-annonce d’un film « Think of your story like an actual movie trailer. 1. Pourquoi faites-vous ce que vous faites ? Par exemple* : « Je vis en banlieue parisienne » Attention : 1. 2. Oui il y a un problème majeur, et vous l’avez identifié : posez-le, de façon générique mais concrète. 3. 4. Par exemple : « J’ai donc inventé la télétransportation. 5.