I like a more structured technique called GRASS, described in Ovid's 'Agile Companies go P.O.P.' presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/Ovid/a-14058644/22 http

I like a more structured technique called GRASS, described in Ovid's 'Agile Companies go P.O.P.' presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/Ovid/a-14058644/22 http://www.slideshare.net/Ovid/a-14058644/22 The basics are: ask the candidate to describe a project they worked on (that they enjoyed, listed on their resume, or anything). Ask follow-up questions until you find out: the Goal of the project; their Role on the team; what Actions they personally took to reach the goal; whether the project Succeeded or not; and Speculation on what they would do differently in hindsight. Repeat until they run out of projects to talk about, or you run out of time.