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General Stuff

Shoot for simplicity

I really loved a couple of phrases from the Ted’s blog post “Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease“: the title and the last sentence: “We are in desperate need of simplicity in this industry.”.
Complexity
Writing software it is still way to complex in these days.
I can recall few attempts to make it easier, they [...]

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Speaking at the Italian Agile Day

This year I’ve decided to propose an “experimental” session: a wall will be available during the conference and the attendees will be asked to put their questions/puzzles about agile, with a special focus on real life projects.
The wall will be handled like a retrospective one, clustering common subjects and people will be asked to vote, [...]

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FM – THE STORY OF A REPEATABLE AGILE SUCCESSFUL PROJECT

One of the biggest strength of Agile software development is the capability of mixing up many different tools and techniques. Agile is not a check- box list of practices that you have to embrace in your project.
With this experience report I want to share the experience of a continuous, repeatable successful project: the agile [...]

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choose your next car: fiat duna, toyota prius or ferrari f60?

If  you’re lucky, you can afford Craftsmanship, good for you. You’ll have top quality, in a hand crafted sports car.
Or if you didn’t follow the market in the last 20 years you’ll opt for a second hand Fiat Duna, mass produced in Brazil in the nineties and you will spend almost nothing (well not including [...]

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