{"id":1000068,"date":"2006-06-27T07:08:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T12:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/2006\/06\/27\/extreme-recruiting\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T16:32:21","slug":"extreme-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/2006\/06\/27\/extreme-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got an e-mail seeking an &#8220;XP developer&#8221; (in a context where XP obviously stood for Extreme Programming, not Windows XP). What was unusual was that I had to read halfway through the message to find out that they wanted a C#\/.NET developer. The first half talked only about XP, Scrum, and Agile techniques.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting inversion of the typical job ad. Normally the programming language is right up top and the methodology is an afterthought, if it&#8217;s included at all. Nonetheless, I think these folks got it right. It might well be easier to take a solid Java practitioner of extreme programming and integrate him or her into a .NET XP shop, than it would be to take a .NET person who&#8217;d never done XP, and bring them in. On-the-fly training is an oft-forgotten and underrated benefit of both pair programming and test-first development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got an e-mail seeking an &#8220;XP developer&#8221; (in a context where XP obviously stood for Extreme Programming, not Windows XP). What was unusual was that I had to read halfway through the message to find out that they wanted a C#\/.NET developer. The first half talked only about XP, Scrum, and Agile techniques. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}