Use these reference questions to evaluate a candidate’s understanding of Software projects and setup, these are aimed a technical project manager, but “pure coders” should understand how and why their work is organized in a certain way as well.

Answers are open-ended and there is often no single perfect answer.

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• What is the difference between Agile and SCRUM?

• What are the components of a User Story?

• What is iterative development? Why is it so popular in software?

• How long are the iterations (sprint) where you work? Is this too long or too short? Why?

• How often are your projects released to production?

• Is deploying on Friday a good practice or not?

• What is TDD (Test-driven development)? Why is it good?

• What is your current team size? Is this a good team size?

• What is the difference Continuous Integration? Do you know Continuous Delivery? What are the differences?

• How many environments do you use (e.g. Development, Sandbox, Production…), and why?

• What differences in the setup are needed for Projects vs. Products?

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