🎯 Sprint Goal

✅ Identify hiring risks early, keep candidates engaged, and ensure cultural alignment with clients.

✅ Apply the following frameworks at every stage:

• Risk Mitigation Framework – Identify and manage risks in candidate selection.
• Client Culture Discovery Framework – Gather insights on how a company makes decisions, works, and measures success.
• Peer Review Question Guide – Structured challenge process to stress-test assumptions.

✅ Use peer reviews to challenge candidate engagement strategies and validate cultural fit before moving candidates forward.

📌 Sprint Instructions

🔹 Step 1: Understand the Client’s Culture

🎯 For new clients or new roles, use the Client Culture Discovery Framework to document key cultural attributes:

✔️ How decisions are made (top-down vs. decentralized)

✔️ Engineering team autonomy and collaboration

✔️ Speed vs. quality priorities

✔️ Team structure and communication style

✔️ Performance expectations and feedback culture

📌 Action: Gather and document insights before sourcing candidates to ensure alignment from the start.

🔹 Step 2: Apply Risk Mitigation for Every Candidate

🎯 Use the Risk Mitigation Framework to assess and manage potential risks at each stage: