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Hey folks,
The recent thread reminded me that this group exists. :-) I hope you don't mind my sharing that I joined a late-stage startup as VP of Eng last year. Now for the best part: **I'm hiring multiple Staff Engineers / XP coaches** to help me transition the company to XP. We're also using FaST (Fluid Scaling Technology) Here's the deets:
OpenSesame | Staff Engineer (XP Coach) | REMOTE (US or Latam) | FULL-TIME
We're an eLearning marketplace and late-stage startup. We have about 65 engineers that are going all in on Extreme Programming (XP) and Fluid Scaling Technology (FaST). We need multiple Staff Engineers with experience in XP practices—such as test-driven development, continuous deployment, and evolutionary design—who will help improve the skills of engineers across the organization.?
You'll act as a hands-on player-coach who leads by example to teach and mentor the engineers you work with. You'll come up to speed quickly in an unfamiliar codebase, identify challenges, and coach team members in addressing them. You'll work as a leader in a team of Staff and Principal engineers to spread XP skills throughout the organization, as well as working with me (VP Eng) to define skill development strategy.
We primarily work in TypeScript / Node / React, but we also have a large PHP / Drupal legacy codebase that you'll be helping us retire.
If you apply for this job and have extensive XP experience—and if you're on this list, you probably do!—email me off-list with an explanation of your background so I can give your interview priority.
Cheers, James
-- James Shore - The Art of Agile
voice: +1 503-267-5490
blog: jamesshore.com
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James, I don't know about the others but I'm very happy you posted this kind of thing to the group.
I wish there were more posts like this in the existing community.
I only wish were I am had openings to post too.
I'd love to add another staff eng that's fully bought in on xp practices but don't have a convincing business case yet.
David
On Wed, Feb 7, 2024, 7:37 PM Jim Shore < jshore@...> wrote: Hey folks,
The recent thread reminded me that this group exists. :-) I hope you don't mind my sharing that I joined a late-stage startup as VP of Eng last year. Now for the best part: **I'm hiring multiple Staff Engineers / XP coaches** to help me transition the company to XP. We're also using FaST (Fluid Scaling Technology) Here's the deets:
OpenSesame | Staff Engineer (XP Coach) | REMOTE (US or Latam) | FULL-TIME
We're an eLearning marketplace and late-stage startup. We have about 65 engineers that are going all in on Extreme Programming (XP) and Fluid Scaling Technology (FaST). We need multiple Staff Engineers with experience in XP practices—such as test-driven development, continuous deployment, and evolutionary design—who will help improve the skills of engineers across the organization.?
You'll act as a hands-on player-coach who leads by example to teach and mentor the engineers you work with. You'll come up to speed quickly in an unfamiliar codebase, identify challenges, and coach team members in addressing them. You'll work as a leader in a team of Staff and Principal engineers to spread XP skills throughout the organization, as well as working with me (VP Eng) to define skill development strategy.
We primarily work in TypeScript / Node / React, but we also have a large PHP / Drupal legacy codebase that you'll be helping us retire.
If you apply for this job and have extensive XP experience—and if you're on this list, you probably do!—email me off-list with an explanation of your background so I can give your interview priority.
Cheers, James
-- James Shore - The Art of Agile
voice: +1 503-267-5490
blog:
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For what it’s worth, people are *hungry* for these opportunities. I’m getting so many incredibly high-quality candidates. I don’t know if it’s the job market or the XP (or me, I guess), but I’d like to say it’s the opportunity to do XP.
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James, I don't know about the others but I'm very happy you posted this kind of thing to the group.
I wish there were more posts like this in the existing community.
I only wish were I am had openings to post too.
I'd love to add another staff eng that's fully bought in on xp practices but don't have a convincing business case yet.
David On Wed, Feb 7, 2024, 7:37 PM Jim Shore < jshore@...> wrote: Hey folks,
The recent thread reminded me that this group exists. :-) I hope you don't mind my sharing that I joined a late-stage startup as VP of Eng last year. Now for the best part: **I'm hiring multiple Staff Engineers / XP coaches** to help me transition the company to XP. We're also using FaST (Fluid Scaling Technology) Here's the deets:
OpenSesame | Staff Engineer (XP Coach) | REMOTE (US or Latam) | FULL-TIME
We're an eLearning marketplace and late-stage startup. We have about 65 engineers that are going all in on Extreme Programming (XP) and Fluid Scaling Technology (FaST). We need multiple Staff Engineers with experience in XP practices—such as test-driven development, continuous deployment, and evolutionary design—who will help improve the skills of engineers across the organization.?
You'll act as a hands-on player-coach who leads by example to teach and mentor the engineers you work with. You'll come up to speed quickly in an unfamiliar codebase, identify challenges, and coach team members in addressing them. You'll work as a leader in a team of Staff and Principal engineers to spread XP skills throughout the organization, as well as working with me (VP Eng) to define skill development strategy.
We primarily work in TypeScript / Node / React, but we also have a large PHP / Drupal legacy codebase that you'll be helping us retire.
If you apply for this job and have extensive XP experience—and if you're on this list, you probably do!—email me off-list with an explanation of your background so I can give your interview priority.
Cheers, James
-- James Shore - The Art of Agile
voice: +1 503-267-5490
blog:
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From what I've seen in the job market for the past few years, it seems difficult to find good agile jobs.? And I've been hearing that the recent cross-industry layoff craze has released a lot of agile coaches and scrum masters.
But I do think you're right that an opportunity to do real XP coaching has always been attractive.? And especially so, in the current environment.
(And while that opportunity is not right for me, I was laid off in November, and am looking for even weakly agile opportunities related to > Guidewire < software in the insurance industry.? I've been working for the last 14 years on dragging insurance companies, kicking and screaming, just a little closer to being agile.)
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Unfortunately, I do not live on the American continent.
Doing XP with those who really believe in it, this job offer is a dream for me! :D?
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If I was in the US time zone I'd jump at this.? I think it's more than just the job market. It's so rare to find somebody in leadership who is open to XP and it's such a draining fight trying to push it from the bottom up. brought to you by the letters A, V, and I
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On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 3:03?AM Jim Shore < jshore@...> wrote: For what it’s worth, people are *hungry* for these opportunities. I’m getting so many incredibly high-quality candidates. I don’t know if it’s the job market or the XP (or me, I guess), but I’d like to say it’s the opportunity to do XP.
James, I don't know about the others but I'm very happy you posted this kind of thing to the group.
I wish there were more posts like this in the existing community.
I only wish were I am had openings to post too.
I'd love to add another staff eng that's fully bought in on xp practices but don't have a convincing business case yet.
David On Wed, Feb 7, 2024, 7:37 PM Jim Shore < jshore@...> wrote: Hey folks,
The recent thread reminded me that this group exists. :-) I hope you don't mind my sharing that I joined a late-stage startup as VP of Eng last year. Now for the best part: **I'm hiring multiple Staff Engineers / XP coaches** to help me transition the company to XP. We're also using FaST (Fluid Scaling Technology) Here's the deets:
OpenSesame | Staff Engineer (XP Coach) | REMOTE (US or Latam) | FULL-TIME
We're an eLearning marketplace and late-stage startup. We have about 65 engineers that are going all in on Extreme Programming (XP) and Fluid Scaling Technology (FaST). We need multiple Staff Engineers with experience in XP practices—such as test-driven development, continuous deployment, and evolutionary design—who will help improve the skills of engineers across the organization.?
You'll act as a hands-on player-coach who leads by example to teach and mentor the engineers you work with. You'll come up to speed quickly in an unfamiliar codebase, identify challenges, and coach team members in addressing them. You'll work as a leader in a team of Staff and Principal engineers to spread XP skills throughout the organization, as well as working with me (VP Eng) to define skill development strategy.
We primarily work in TypeScript / Node / React, but we also have a large PHP / Drupal legacy codebase that you'll be helping us retire.
If you apply for this job and have extensive XP experience—and if you're on this list, you probably do!—email me off-list with an explanation of your background so I can give your interview priority.
Cheers, James
-- James Shore - The Art of Agile
voice: +1 503-267-5490
blog:
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No question about that - it is flat painful to be working in an organization that doesn’t understand what Agile is and why it matters.
Now if somebody only had such opportunities in Java...
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On Feb 7, 2024, at 8:03 PM, Jim Shore <jshore@...> wrote:
For what it’s worth, people are *hungry* for these opportunities. I’m getting so many incredibly high-quality candidates. I don’t know if it’s the job market or the XP (or me, I guess), but I’d like to say it’s the opportunity to do XP.
James, I don't know about the others but I'm very happy you posted this kind of thing to the group.
I wish there were more posts like this in the existing community.
I only wish were I am had openings to post too.
I'd love to add another staff eng that's fully bought in on xp practices but don't have a convincing business case yet.
David On Wed, Feb 7, 2024, 7:37 PM Jim Shore < jshore@...> wrote: Hey folks,
The recent thread reminded me that this group exists. :-) I hope you don't mind my sharing that I joined a late-stage startup as VP of Eng last year. Now for the best part: **I'm hiring multiple Staff Engineers / XP coaches** to help me transition the company to XP. We're also using FaST (Fluid Scaling Technology) Here's the deets:
OpenSesame | Staff Engineer (XP Coach) | REMOTE (US or Latam) | FULL-TIME
We're an eLearning marketplace and late-stage startup. We have about 65 engineers that are going all in on Extreme Programming (XP) and Fluid Scaling Technology (FaST). We need multiple Staff Engineers with experience in XP practices—such as test-driven development, continuous deployment, and evolutionary design—who will help improve the skills of engineers across the organization.?
You'll act as a hands-on player-coach who leads by example to teach and mentor the engineers you work with. You'll come up to speed quickly in an unfamiliar codebase, identify challenges, and coach team members in addressing them. You'll work as a leader in a team of Staff and Principal engineers to spread XP skills throughout the organization, as well as working with me (VP Eng) to define skill development strategy.
We primarily work in TypeScript / Node / React, but we also have a large PHP / Drupal legacy codebase that you'll be helping us retire.
If you apply for this job and have extensive XP experience—and if you're on this list, you probably do!—email me off-list with an explanation of your background so I can give your interview priority.
Cheers, James -- James Shore - The Art of Agile
voice: +1 503-267-5490
blog:?
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Hi James, Like other people from the group, I don't want to miss the opportunity to thank you for posting this kind of search: even if unfortunately I can't apply because I live in Europe, it's highly refreshing and motivating knowing that it exists places in the world with that mindset and awareness :-) Regards, Isi
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You're welcome! I didn't expect so much appreciation for the position, but I'm glad to be able to offer it. I'm just sorry I won't be able to hire all of the amazing and passionate XP'ers who have applied. I think it goes to show that XP isn't dead yet (it's just pining for the fjords).
Cheers, James On Feb 10, 2024, at 2:22 AM, Isidro López <islomar@...> wrote:
Hi James, Like other people from the group, I don't want to miss the opportunity to thank you for posting this kind of search: even if unfortunately I can't apply because I live in Europe, it's highly refreshing and motivating knowing that it exists places in the world with that mindset and awareness :-) Regards, Isi
-- James Shore - The Art of Agile
voice: +1 503-267-5490
blog: jamesshore.com
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