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 […]
Yearly archives: 2018
31 posts
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, […]
If you’re reading here, it means that you, like me, eventually asked yourselves which is the best and safest baby carrier of all. If you’re lucky you’re thinking about it in advance and you still didn’t buy any. If you didn’t think in advance, maybe you bought one and you […]
If you are programming an Android app and you’re allowing your users to select an image from gallery you will soon discover that as the screen rotates the image disappears! Gosh! What’s happening?! Let’s go a step back. So far you should know that activities have a specific lifecycle. Each […]
Hello everyone, today I will share my experience about creating a Git repository for a new Android Studio project. This post dates back to 2016 and is migrated from an older blog. My goal is to allow a fellow developer to checkout (Clone in Git words) the project from server […]
This post dates back to 2013 and it is ported from my old blog. I recently installed IIS Express on my machine. I found it useful and I developed a GUI for it that you can find here on GitHub: The most surprising feature of IIS Express, in my opinion, […]
This post dates back to 2013 and it is migrated from my old blog. The argument of this post can be relevant to people using Subversion and willing to give a try to Git. In this article I will try to give a quick way to get started with Git […]
This post dates back to 2013 and is migrated from my old blog. The argument of this post is relevant to people using Entity Framework and needing to filter data coming from a Database with a list of in-memory data. In this article I will try to start summarizing what […]
This post dates back to 2013 and it is migrated from my old blog. In this article I will show you that, when importing data with Entity Framework, you will almost always have performance issues unless you disable AutoDetectChanges. When creating an application to be scheduled on a timely basis […]
This post dates back to 2012 and it is migrated from my old blog. In this article I will show you that when using Queryable.Sum with Entity Framework and Linq to Entities to sum up a list of decimal values (or other value type) like in the following snippet you […]