I take the opportunity of a really good article shared recently by my network. It’s been a while since I wanted to share some thoughts about product definition and about organizational consultants advices. My humbleness and shyness prevented me to write anything about it but today I decided to give […]
The lessons that we can find in classical textbooks are always surprising and refreshing While re-reading Homer’s Iliad I stumbled upon an interesting scene that I want to narrate here. As many of you may know “Iliad” starts “in medias res” and we are immediately confronted with a scenario of […]
No, no, noooo….. The title of this post is aimed to introduce the description of a behavior I see as incredibly valuable. It is a behavior that I’ve been lucky to observe in the Product Owner that I am working with and in the Product Owners that I’ve been lucky […]
What about Kids on YouTube videos? What about Cooperation? And what about Games? I am not writing articles related to Kids since a while but that part of my life is still prevalent. Yet the world of Agile Software Development and my involvement in the world of Scrum Masters drive […]
As you probably guessed the title of this post is ironic. I want to spend few words to show the logic behind a certain kind of behavior and its consequences. The behavior I’m referring to as: Challenge Driven Development is one that some are tempted to use. This behavior is […]
Following a link from this Martin Fowler’s post I was pleased to find this great piece by Henrik Kniberg. In that post he talks about the mess we sometimes create while coding our way through an issue. He calls it “Good Technical Debt” and explains us the crucial role it plays […]
I recently re-read this great article by Martin Fowler about Technical Debt. I feel shy about having a partially dissenting opinion but I’m taking courage and I will blog about it. The part that caught my attention is the following sentence: If I have a terrible area of the code […]
Have you ever felt like if you were forcing other team members to attend a Retrospective meeting? Have you ever noticed a changed attitude over time and your not sure about how the mood actually changed? It’s hard to know what happened to our colleagues right before they walk in […]
Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka is a compendium of knowledge about participatory decision making and more widely about teams dynamics! Jean Tabaka guides us in a journey exploring all the aspect of collaboration via a digest of available knowledge coming from an extensive bibliography and having made this knowledge sound […]
If you want to be serious about facilitating a retrospective you must first read and then use this book! Esther Derby and Diana Larsen provide us with a comprehensive view of what a retrospective is and of what are all the aspects to consider and to be comfortable with. ”Retrospectives […]
When face-to-face communication goes social Article originally published at www.scrumalliance.org. You can find the original article here. Since I’m writing here, it’s no surprise that I believe in communication and sharing of experiences. This is evident in the first place because I’m writing, and even more because I’m submitting here. When […]
Article originally published at www.scrumalliance.org. You can find the original article here. I’d like to share my experiences in working both with and without tools designed for a specific purpose. I worry when colleagues and teammates talk about principles. I am concerned about the frequent transformation of principles in diktats, because […]
The dark side of not investing in a product owner Article originally published at www.scrumalliance.org. You can find the original article here. Let me tell you about my experience working without a true product owner. At my company, we all heard that implementing some of the Scrum practices didn’t mean […]
In this post I’d like to talk about an artifact I’m very proud of. It’s the weekly calendar I made for my son Alessandro. First of all you need to know the context: Alessandro was little more than 3 years old and he had recently started his first year at […]
As far as thermometers are concerned I don’t know if my approach is paranoid or it is a normal behavior. When my son was two months old we started the path through vaccines. Talking about side-effects there is a problem I was not keen to approach the conventional way: the […]
At the very moment in which we had to choose a bed for Alessandro I received a clever advice from a friend of mine. She suggested me to buy one with at least one completely flippable side! I then looked for beds with at least this feature. Few of them […]
Me and my wife did a common error with the HighChair. We tried, at first, a traditional one and only after finding out that it was really uncomfortable, we decided that we needed something better. We started the weaning of Alessandro with a traditional HighChair. We had our kitchen half […]
As far as baby baths are concerned, I’m pretty sure about what to suggest: the Tummy Tub baby tub. Since when my wife was in the hospital after our son’s birth, I noticed a picture of a Tummy Tub and I read its description and usage. I talked with my […]
During last Spring, when my son was 2 years and 6 months old, a friend of mine talked to me about balance bikes. I already had noticed few of them in toys shops but I had considered them no more than toys. When my friend talked to me I realized, […]