Personally, the most important things to find out are:
(1) does the development team work agile? If yes, then what does agile development really mean in this case.
(2) who is responsible for the development team. Are product owner and project managers technicians?
Especially the last point is important for me. I tend to join compainies that give product ownership and project management mostly into the hand of technical stuff.
It just makes your live as a developer so much easier if you have to explain to a fellow programmer why your task takes another week vs. if you explain it to a non - tech person.
Not only "does the development team work agile", but ask them about their agile processes. I've seen companies that pretend to be agile, but practice "waterfall on a kanban board"
Personally, the most important things to find out are:
(1) does the development team work agile? If yes, then what does agile development really mean in this case.
(2) who is responsible for the development team. Are product owner and project managers technicians?
Especially the last point is important for me. I tend to join compainies that give product ownership and project management mostly into the hand of technical stuff.
It just makes your live as a developer so much easier if you have to explain to a fellow programmer why your task takes another week vs. if you explain it to a non - tech person.
These are some really good points, Dennis. Thank you for sharing.
Not only "does the development team work agile", but ask them about their agile processes. I've seen companies that pretend to be agile, but practice "waterfall on a kanban board"
The classic "Scrumfall": having scrum sprints that go on for months >.>