Why you should hire young

Agile project management is a rather new style of management. It\’s a method there requires dedication and will. Changing the management style in a department is no easy task and challenges will arise. 

Change management style to agile has a big potential for not working well if leaded by either \’non believers\’ or people not having the right tools to handle the challenges and frustrations.

By hiring people straight from university, you will receive people with a deep understanding of the agile philosophy and a loaded toolbox. If you come from university and was taught agile I would argue you\’re better prepared than people there has taken an online course or a seminar. 

Learning in school you have had different teachers and book arguing the best practices for agile management were Kanban and SCRUM being the biggest. But I think only few are able to tell the differences and can list the pros and cons except if you have a deeper understanding. Being taught in the differences and best practices results in bigger toolbox ready to handle the challenges. 

But it\’s a theoretical or taught toolbox. I don\’t have the professional experience yet. I have practiced agile for school project but not in a professional setting. However I don\’t think that\’s only a drawback its also a benefit. You write that you\’re \”still in the early stages of our agile journey\” and then a unrestricted mind might come to benefit, as more experienced persons might quickly face challenges and redraw the strategy and return to old habits and the comfort zone. 

Changing to agile is a learning process there will ideate and refine over time and having a young manager is also a dedicated manager, and it also puts the employees in power to create the team culture that agile need.