A few interview questions to consider.

• Why did the last person in this role leave?
• How many long timers have left recently? Why?
• Is deploying difficult? How often do you do it?
• Do you assign tasks to individual people?
• Do you seek simplicity? What was a complicated process that as a team you were able to simplify?
• Do you limit WIP? If not, how to fix bottlenecks in your process?
• If everyone in the standup is busy with something, is that a red flag or a good thing?
  • (no way that team is efficient. )
• How often is the question “How am I wrong?” asked?
• What is your improvement strategy?
• Do you deploy on Fridays? Why not?
• Do you measure the queues - i.e. how long things wait to be reviewed, to be QA’d, to be deployed? What are those numbers?
• Do you ever commit a change that you do not trust?
• What corners do you cut? What corners have you cut?
• “Follow the plan” or “incorporate feedback”?