Hire The Best
"Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum " is a book by two authors: Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. Coverage of this book includes: Lean thinking and development, Agile practices and Methods, Scrum teams, Agile enterprise that delivers value fast.
This book is recommended for offshore product development team. One of the chapter in this book deals with, the most often heard, old advice:
Hire the best. Is this really a good advice? Is it possible, particularly for small teams?
Bramagupta who is a Indian mathematician lived in 6 th century. Without modern day scientific methods, he tried to prove that Hire the best is the hardest thing to do? Particularly for SMBs. Please comment your take on this… / Malick.
‘Accuracies of your action tend to improve with the number of trials’.
Later in 17 th century "Golden Theorem" and in 18 th century the "Law of Large Numbers" were formulated. Simply put, assuming that the probability of best hire is 50% when we hire about 100 software engineers, the same is not true when lesser (say lesser than 10 ) people are hired!
