RubyConf 2015 - Moneyball at the keyboard: Lessons on how to Scout Talented Developers
Channel: Confreaks
Date: 2015-11-22

Moneyball at the keyboard: Lessons on how to Scout Talented Developers by Adam Jonas

The central premise of Moneyball is that the collected wisdom of baseball insiders is subjective and flawed. Like baseball, the tech industry has a poor history of evaluating talent by favoring biased perspectives over objective analysis. As a baseball scout turned web developer and team lead, I will explore how the lessons I learned in my former career can enable us all to make better decisions on how to grow our teams and surface undervalued skills.

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