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🤘 An Evening with Gabriele Petronella: Live coding with React and TypeScript

Missing some good old code? Here's a new meetup for you!

Join Gabriele Petronella, one of the latest additions to Avanscoperta's rooster of trainer, as he guides us through a live coding session with TypeScript and React.

The two frameworks are also the topic of his online workshop, soon available in English too (join the waiting list and be the first to know when we'll have a new date).

In this session we’ll refactor on a small but realistic app, and we’ll see how TypeScript can help us when our requirements change and we have to update our code.

As usual, you'll have a chance to interact with Gabriele and your fellow participants by joining the YouTube chat during the live streaming. Plenty of space for your questions: let's make this interactive!

🇬🇧 Language
English

🎙 Speaker
Gabriele Petronella

📰 Bio
Gabriele is the co-founder of buildo, a software consulting company based in Milan, where he works as a lead software engineer. Passionate about front-end and back-end architectures, he has extensive experience with react, TypeScript and Scala.

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👉 Gabriele is the author of a 4-module online workshop called TypeScript and React Workshop for flexible web apps.
➡️ https://bit.ly/TypeScript_React_ENG_Podcast

#JavaScript #React #TypeScript #FrontEnd #Framework #WebFramework #Software #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDev #BackEnd #FrontEndDevelopment

Wardley Mapping 🤘 An Evening with Ben Mosior, Xin Yao, Marijn Huizendveld and Marco Heimeshoff on Wardley Mapping and more

One of the most interesting and useful approaches out there, Wardley Mapping has been fascinating us since the beginning. Two years ago we had the opportunity to host Simon Wardley, the man himself, for a 3-hour Bootcamp which served as an intro to Wardley Mapping, and we're now happy to be able to offer another training course on the same topic with one of the most well-known experts on the field, Mr. Ben Mosior.

And so we thought, why don’t we organize a panel to talk a bit more about Wardley Mapping with Ben and some of our experts who already know Wardley mapping quite well?
Once again, this will be a highly interactive event, and with Xin, Marijn and Marco we’ll try to understand why Wardley Mapping is useful, we’ll learn about some real-case scenarios where it’s been implemented successfully, how to get started, and what challenges it represents.

So join us for this panel with Ben Mosior, Xin Yao, Marijn Huizendveld and Marco Heimeshoff and, in pure Avanscoperta fashion, there will be plenty of space for your questions.

🇬🇧 Language
English

🎙 Panelists
Ben Mosior, Xin Yao, Marijn Huizendveld and Marco Heimeshoff

📰 Bio
Ben: Ben Mosior is a curator of strange and interesting methods for people who care. He integrates transition design, systems modeling, and conditions-consequences philosophy into powerful, practical approaches to change management and strategy.

Xin: Sociotechnical architect at Danske Bank. She believes that a product, domain and team-oriented architecture is the super glue to bind multiple agile teams navigating toward a common horizon. In her organization’s recently Spotified landscape where a team’s cognitive capacity is under constant stress, she practices domain-driven design and facilitates collaborative modeling to help teams make sense, make decisions and make intuitive business software.

Marijn: Marijn Huizendveld is a software quality consultant who lives and works in Amsterdam. He intentionally works for either startups or large corporates, the contrast between them can lead to great insights in how people build software. Over the past 10 years he learned what it takes to build software that solves a problem while simultaneously contributing to the bottom line of the organization.

Marco: Marco Heimeshoff is a Trainer, EventStorming Facilitator, Speaker, Software developer from Germany. With over a decade of experience, he is helping teams to change and teaches them all things from code to culture and to master Domain-Driven Design, Agile software development, functional programming and CQRS with event sourcing.

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Check out Ben Mosior's Wardley Mapping Accelerator (25th May 2022, 3pm to 6pm CEST): https://bit.ly/Wardley_Mapping_Mosior_Podcast

#WardleyMapping #Strategy #Wardley #Mapping #Innovation #Business #DecisionMaking #Leadership #StrategicConversation #Facilitation #Organization #TeamStructure #Software #BusinessStrategy #BusinessDevelopment

Team Topologies e altri modelli organizzativi: An Evening With Alessandro Giardina, Francesca Carta e Luca Cioria

Cosa è Team Topologies? Se n’è sentito parlare molto negli ultimi anni, complice il successo del libro omonimo di Manuel Pais e Matthew Skelton.

In poche parole, si tratta di una modalità di configurazione dei team e i loro meccanismi di interazione all’interno di organizzazioni che si occupano di sviluppo software.

L'anno scorso abbiamo avuto il piacere di ospitare proprio Manuel Pais per un corso introduttivo su Team Topologies e ne parliamo con alcuni ospiti che hanno avuto modo di sperimentare con questo approccio, seguendone alcuni principi, e proponendolo all’interno delle loro aziende o con dei clienti.

Faremo una chiacchierata in puro stile Avanscoperta, cercando di capire in modo non dogmatico come alcuni principi di Team Topologies vengono adottati all'interno delle aziende dei nostri speaker (cosa funziona e cosa no, e quali mosse vengono fatte per adottarne alcuni principi), quali i suoi benefici, dove è più utile e cosa si è imparato, in ottica di condivisione dell’esperienza fatta finora.

Gli ospiti del nostro panel sono Alessandro Giardina (Intré), Francesca Carta (Mia-Platform) e Luca Cioria (buildo).

🇮🇹 Lingua: italiano

📜 Bio

Alessandro Giardina: Delivery Manager in Intré dal 2019 e praticante entusiasta delle Metodologie Agili con una grande passione verso l'apprendimento di cose nuove, lavorare in ambienti complessi ma collaborativi nei quali le persone fanno la differenza.

Un team player che adora crescere e lavorare bene insieme le persone.

Francesca Carta: Senior Product Owner in Mia-Platform. Laureata in Filosofia con una forte passione per il mondo digital e per il futuro. Da anni si occupa di gestire un prodotto digitale per accelerare e governare piattaforme a microservizi.

Luca Cioria: Co-Founder di buildo. Imprenditore con esperienza nella progettazione e sviluppo di prodotti digitali, con focus su abilitare team e aziende nell'usare la tecnologia efficacemente per raggiungere gli obiettivi.

I nostri workshop: http://bit.ly/Team_Topologies_Podcast

#TeamTopologies #Team #DevOps #TeamWork #TeamStructure #DomainDrivenDesign #DDDesign #Software #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #TeamBuilding #Leadership #SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareArchitect #TeamLeader #TechLead #SoftSkills #BusinessStrategy #TeamManagement #TeamInteraction

Lean Value Tree e OKR: due modi diversi di pianificare le attività all'interno di un'azienda.
Il primo, che si avvale di una forte componente visuale, è uno strumento che permette di passare dalla pianificazione a una strategia incentrata sul valore e basata sulla prioritizzazione guidata dai risultati (e non dalle features).
Il secondo invece è basato sulla definizione a monte di obiettivi chiari e condivisi a livello aziendale, che siano legati a mission e vision aziendali, e che si possano delineare in attività specifiche e misurabili.
Entrambi si propongono come strumenti utili per fronteggiare in modo snello ed efficace l'imprevedibilità, i cambiamenti e le varie richieste del mercato e dei progetti.

Ne parliamo con Matteo Cavucci e Francesco Fullone, autori, rispettivamente, di Product Discovery Workshop con il Lean Value Tree, e di OKR per aziende e persone workshop.

🇮🇹 Lingua: italiano

📜 Bio

Francesco Fullone: docente Avanscoperta, business designer, mentor e investitore in aziende tecnologiche focalizzate sulla sostenibilità o sull’impatto sociale.

Matteo Cavucci: consulente per lo sviluppo del prodotto digitale e trainer Avanscoperta.

⤵️ Link ai workshop

OKR per aziende e persone Workshop: http://bit.ly/OKR_Fullo_Podcast

Product Discovery Workshop with the Lean Value Tree: https://bit.ly/Product_Discovery_Matteo_Cavucci_EN_Podcast

#OKR #LeanValueTree #BusinessObjectives #ObjectivesKeyResults #Lean #LeanThinking #BusinessStrategy #Innovation #BusinessInnovation #VisualTool #Results

🤘 An Evening with Wojtek Ptak, Emanuela Damiani, Luca Sartoni and Alberto Brandolini on Collaborative asynchronous communication and more

"Communication bandwidth is a finite resource in the organization. And most of us already used all of it. You can improve your organization throughput by reducing the need for alignment, synchronization and so on."

Aka how we ended up organising a panel discussion on collaborative asynchronous communication and, more in general, on remote communication, in order to go deeper on the topic. All of this started from the Tweet quoted above which kicked off a big conversation on Twitter between Wojtek, ZioBrando and many more people.
We couldn't leave Emanuela and Luca out of the picture, considering their huge experience in this very field.

And how is it going in your company?
Join us for this panel with Wojtek Ptak, Emanuela Damiani, Luca Sartoni and Alberto Brandolini and, in pure Avanscoperta fashion, there will be plenty of space for your questions.

📅 When
Tuesday 25th January 2022, 7 pm CET

🎥 Where
In live streaming on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9zrmmauQF3I

🇬🇧 Language
English

🎙 Panelists
Wojtek Ptak, Emanuela Damiani, Luca Sartoni and Alberto Brandolini

📰 Bio
Wojtek: CTO at Talent Alpha, Wojtek has extensive experience in successfully delivering numerous projects for medium, large, and enterprise clients as a leader or consultant. A goal-driven, continuous learner and improver who loves leading teams to achieve ambitious goals.

Emanuela: Working every day for the best browser experience for Firefox and other Mozilla products. As a UX Manager, she helps her team to design and deliver what it’s best for the people of the Internet.

Luca: Managing teams of engineers across four continents at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Woocommerce, Tumblr, and many other products.

Alberto: EventStorming Creator, author of Introducing EventStorming - An act of deliberate collective learning and Founder of Avanscoperta, Alberto Brandolini is an all-around consultant in the Information Technology field.

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Check out our upcoming workshops: https://bit.ly/Avanscoperta_Workshops_Training_Courses_Podcast

#Communication #Remote #Collaboration #Asynchronous #CollaborationStrategy #Team #RemoteTeam #RemoteWork #SmartWorking #RemoteWorking #RemoteLife #WFH

This time we talk with Matteo Cavucci, independent consultant and Avanscoperta trainer. Starting off with his definition of product discovery as "what we can do to kill an idea as early as possible", we'll understand if and how this concept is helpful when used in conjunction with visual tools that enable decision-making such as the Lean Value Tree.
Are you curious now?

Small Talk is a chance to go behind the scenes of our experts' work and get a sneak peek of what their workshop will be about and, as usual, you’ll be able to join the conversation by asking questions from home.
Always wanted to ask a trainer that burning question about what they do? Now you have a chance!

We’ll discuss how the idea of mixing the Product Discovery workshop with the Lean Value Tree approach was born, why it is useful, what type of professionals will benefit from this the most, what type of exercises we’ll be doing in the workshop and how these will enable you to learn the key concepts during the class.

Who: Matteo Cavucci is a deep systems thinker, with over a decade of experience in design and agile development processes.
He helps knowledge-based organizations to discover better ways of creating digital products. He supports teams, managers, and executives in dissolving the boundaries between ideating, planning, and delivering software, driving innovation across the research/design/development spectrum.

Workshop link: https://bit.ly/Product_Discovery_Matteo_Cavucci_EN_Podcast

#ProductDiscovery #Lean #ProductOwner #LeanThinking #ProductStrategy #ProductMgmt #ProductManagement #Agile #Software #UX #UI #DesignThinking #Innovation #ProjectManagement #Ideas #Validation #IdeaValidation #IdeaGeneration #StartUp #Discovery #Strategy #BusinessStrategy #Prioritization

Our series of interactive events in live streaming with our experts, an informal 30-minute chat on their area of expertise where you'll have a chance to interact with them, ask questions and learn straight from the source.

The first Small Talk of the year will see the comeback of Gojko Adzic, book author and one of our trainers. Let's understand a bit more about Specification By Example, a book he published in 2011 (which is also the title of his upcoming workshop).
In a nutshell, Specification By Example is a collaborative approach to defining requirements and tests based on capturing realistic examples instead of abstract statements.

Small Talk is a chance to go behind the scenes of our experts' work and get a sneak peek of what their workshop will be about and, as usual, you’ll be able to join the conversation by asking questions from home.
Always wanted to ask a trainer that burning question about what they do? Now you have a chance!

We’ll discuss how Gojko's Specification By Example workshop was born, why it is useful, if it is still relevant after more than 10 years from its creation, what type of professionals will benefit from this the most, what type of exercises we’ll be doing in the workshop and how these will enable you to learn the key concepts during the class.

Did we say it already? You’re encouraged to be part of the conversation and ask questions during the live streaming through the chat provided by YouTube.

Who: Gojko Adzic is a partner at Neuri Consulting LLP. He is the winner of the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2011 Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Award.
Author of: Specification By Example, Impact Mapping, Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories, Humans vs Computers.

Workshop link: https://bit.ly/SpecificationByExample_Podcast

#SpecificationByExample #SoftwareTesting #Testing #ProductOwner #SoftwareDevelopment #Communication #Implementation #Team #TeamWork #SoftwareDeveloper #SoftwareTester #Agile #Scrum #Kanban #UserStory #Software #Test #Example #Lean #LeanThinking #ExtremeProgramming #Requirements #ImpactMapping #Requirements

🤘 An Evening with Jurgen Appelo and Alberto Brandolini on The unFIX Model for Versatile Organizations and more

What comes after Management 3.0, SAFe, and the Spotify Model?

Well, it’s not hard to see in which direction the world is moving: organizations that consist of networked individuals who work from anywhere, who form teams on the fly, who aim for objectives and achieve results, and make that a whole lotta fun for themselves. Such an organization can do anything!

All organizations need business agility and continuous innovation. But if you work exclusively with dedicated teams that always need to go through forming, storming, and norming stages before they can finally perform, you’re out of luck. That’s neither agile nor innovative. The accelerated pace of change in the world asks for more fluidity of work structures and a switch from dedicated teams to dynamic teaming.

We'll talk about this with Jurgen Appelo and Alberto Brandolini and, in pure Avanscoperta fashion, there will be plenty of space for your questions.

🎙 Speakers
Jurgen Appelo and Alberto Brandolini

📰 Bio
Jurgen: a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.
Since 2008 Jurgen writes a popular blog at www.noop.nl, that covers topics including Agile management, software engineering, business improvement, personal development, and complexity theory.
He is the author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, which describes the role of the manager in Agile organizations.

Alberto: EventStorming Creator, author of Introducing EventStorming - An act of deliberate collective learning and Founder of Avanscoperta, Alberto Brandolini is an all-around consultant in the Information Technology field.

Asserting that problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that originated them, Alberto switches perspective frequently assuming the architect, mentor, coach, manager or developer point of view.

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Jurgen Appelo is the author of the workshop "The Versatile Organization Workshop and the unFix Model": https://bit.ly/Appelo_Versatile_Org_Podcast

#CompanyCulture #ChangeManagement #SpotifyModel #SAFe #Scaling #Agile #Kanban #Scrum #Leadership #OrganizationalStructure

🤘 Meetup Online: An Evening about Microservices
con Gianluca Padovani

Microservizi: se n'è parlato tanto (troppo?) negli ultimi anni, ma spesso si fa ancora confusione.
Cerchiamo di fare chiarezza con un esperto che ha avuto modo di sporcarsi le mani e può condividere consigli, dritte, storie di vita vissuta, e guidarci nel capire davvero quando i microservizi vadano usati e quando... è meglio starne alla larga!
La nostra guida nel mondo dei microservices è Gianluca Padovani, docente Avanscoperta e CTO di Coders51.

🇮🇹 Lingua: italiano

👉 Titolo
A gentle introduction to Microservices

📰 Abstract

Cosa sono i microservizi? Perché li devo usare? Sono una moda? In alcuni dicono che siano una soluzione "standard", altri dicono che non si dovrebbero usare, altri ne negano l'esistenza... Ma chi sviluppa software e deve portare a casa un po' di software che funziona... cosa deve fare?
Proviamo a vedere e a capire da dove arrivano, cosa sono e quali caratteristiche hanno, in modo da fare in ogni contesto una scelta una consapevole.

🎙 Speaker
Gianluca Padovani

📰 Bio
Gianluca è uno sviluppatore software, TDD-addicted e coach agile.
Grande appassionato dei linguaggi funzionali, in particolare di Elixir/Erlang, e di Ruby, NodeJs e C++.
Gianluca è CTO di Coders51.

👉 Gianluca Padovani è il trainer del workshop Practical Microservices (prossima edizione: 20-21-27-28 gennaio 2022, in italiano).
➡️ https://bit.ly/Microservices_Gpad_YT

#Microservices #Microservizi #DomainDrivenDesign #Software #SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareDevelopment #BestPractices #SoftwareDeveloper #Monolith #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareEngineer

🤘 An Evening with Francesco Strazzullo and Jacopo Romei on Decision-making and Extreme Contracts

Francesco Strazzullo is currently writing Decision-making for Software Development Teams, published by Avanscoperta.
Jacopo Romei is the author of Extreme Contracts, and the English version of the book will include a contribution by Francesco Strazzullo, who will talk about extreme contracts in the context of decision-making.

Wow, loads going on! Join us for this interesting discussion with our experts about extreme contracts and decision-making. We'll find out how these macro topics are correlated and as usual, there will be plenty of space for your questions!

🎙 Speakers
Francesco Strazzullo and Jacopo Romei

📰 Bio
Francesco: author of the books Decision-making for software development teams (by Avanscoperta and available on LeanPub) and Frameworkless Front-End Development (by Apress), he’s been working with .NET e J2EE applications throughout his career. He decided to focus more on JavaScript and on the development of frontend and mobile apps. Francesco is also an Avanscoperta trainer.

Jacopo: author of Extreme Contracts, consultant, entrepreneur, Avanscoperta trainer. Usually, Jacopo gets hired by those willing to waste less time, money and happiness and he helps people working in teams to work better because our jobs are a significant part of our lives.

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Jacopo Romei's website is the starting point for your journey in the world of Extreme Contracts and his work: https://jacoporomei.com/

Francesco Strazzullo's book Decision-making for Software Development Teams is available on LeanPub, published by Avanscoperta: https://leanpub.com/decision-making-for-software-development-teams

Francesco is also the author of the Decision-making for Software Development Teams Remote Workshop: http://bit.ly/DecisionMaking_Strazz_ENG_Podcast

#DecisionMaking #ExtremeContracts #DDDesign #StrategicDDDesign #Strategy #BusinessStrategy #Software #SoftwareDevelopment #Decisions #Decision #MakingDecisions #SoftwareArchitecture #Agile #Kanban #Scrum #Riskmanagement #Framework #Frameworkless