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The Agile Dad

Is the agile Dad falling down? Hopefully not! Explore Agile practices. Find new ways to improve our lives as human beings. Discover better ways to be profitable for our company.

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Help! My house is invaded by kids!

Do you think a father needs help? Well it is definitely so! How do we survive in a home invaded by kids? Which product to choose when you need one? How to have our son get off the light holder?...

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The Playing Dad

Are we serious enough about playing? Cooperative games for kids. Game reviews. Serious gaming for your team. Links to useful resources.

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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 […]

About “5 mins read” enlightening articles

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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 […]

What does Homer’s Iliad teaches us about leadership?

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 […]

Why saying “No” is not enough for a Product Owner?

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 […]

Cooperative Games for Kids and Toddlers

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 […]

Challenge Driven Development: the Positive feedback loop of infinite productivity

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 […]

Can a Flow State produce a constant Flow of bugs?

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 […]

Beware that old messy piece of 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 […]

Are you a prisoner of your own Retrospective?

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 […]

How you can help your team grow in Collaboration thanks …

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 […]

How to Conquer Agile Retrospectives thanks to a book

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 […]

What Slack Revealed About Our Colocated Team

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 […]

We Value Tools Too

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 […]

No Part-Time Product Owner

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 […]

How I made a weekly calendar

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 […]

The best thermometer for kids

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 […]

The best bed for my son

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 […]

The best HighChair

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 […]

The best baby bath tub

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, […]

The Best Balance Bike

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