Comments on: Top Skills Wanted by Agile Employers http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/26/agile/ Take No Prisoners Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:38:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Kavan Wolfe http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/26/agile/#comment-843 Kavan Wolfe Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:25:06 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/26/agile/#comment-843 I think the particular person who said accounting ran a software company that developed accounting systems. I think the particular person who said accounting ran a software company that developed accounting systems.

]]> By: Ashley Moran http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/26/agile/#comment-838 Ashley Moran Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:50:03 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/26/agile/#comment-838 This is pretty much what my current employer ( http://www.codeweavers.net/ ) looks for. Certainly when I personally write a job spec, it looks like: * Understanding PRINCPILES of object oriented development * CONCEPTUAL understanding of relational databases * Knowledge of design patterns * TDD/BDD I tend to use different words for the things in caps but the idea is the same. Abstract thinking is kinda implicit in all these. Prototyping is not a word I am familiar with. It means you show the client the first version before you turn it into production code, right? Have to say, I've never asked for accounting. Not sure why a developer would need this? Most understand it to the extent they know how much they are getting paid. This is pretty much what my current employer ( http://www.codeweavers.net/ ) looks for. Certainly when I personally write a job spec, it looks like:
* Understanding PRINCPILES of object oriented development
* CONCEPTUAL understanding of relational databases
* Knowledge of design patterns
* TDD/BDD

I tend to use different words for the things in caps but the idea is the same. Abstract thinking is kinda implicit in all these.

Prototyping is not a word I am familiar with. It means you show the client the first version before you turn it into production code, right?

Have to say, I’ve never asked for accounting. Not sure why a developer would need this? Most understand it to the extent they know how much they are getting paid.

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