Agile contracting the pink unicorn everybody is looking for

About the topic:

For recruitment experts and development teams seeking new team members to expandthe team skills, both from a technical and mindset perspective, the traditional hiringprocedure is most of the times bureaucratic and slow. Moreover, the usual hiringprocess in most of the companies shows little respect for applicants, making themwait weeks for an answer without further feedback about the interviews.

An Agile recruiting process should be human centric, reducing the feedback cyclefrom months down to a few days, simplifying the sluggish process to a couple of steps.In an Agile recruiting environment, teams are the main stakeholders, and they should beinvolved in most of the related actions, from profile definition up to final hiringdecision. 

Over and above, the complete staffing kanban should be visible andtransparent throughout the company.In this talk we will present our experiences regarding the hiring strategy of REWE digitalBulgaria. We will show you how in an aggressive IT employment market with atremendous demand for IT professionals, REWE Digital Bulgaria has implemented asuccessful value stream for hiring, allowing the company to grow at a quick pace.

About Speaker:

Experienced  organisational agent and deployment manager with experienced in product  development, deployment and portfolio management. Strong operations  professional skilled in Telecommunications industry and retail  digitalisation industry. International speaker and business consultant.  

For  over 27 years Norma has been engaged as software developer and  maintenance engineer, trainer, process engineer and Deployment Manager  in Ericsson. She was also intensively involved in the Agile  transformation at Ericsson ICT Center Aachen, acting as change agent,  scrum master, coach and consultant for Ericsson customers. Furthermore,  as passionate Agilist, she was one of the main drivers for the Community  of Practice strategy at Ericsson ICT Development Center Aachen.
 

She is a well-known public  speaker with international reputation at Agile and DevOps conferences,  where she has been invited at Agile Tour London, Scan Agile Helsinki,  Agile Practitioners Tel Aviv, delivery of Things World Berlin, Agile  Austria Graz 2018, etc… Furthermore, she contributes to the Agile  community with publications like InfoQ.