Avanscoperta - Interviews with experts

☕ Tea Time or Beer O'Clock? 🍺 Decision-making with Francesco Strazzullo

🔥 A new series of live events on Facebook with the first author of Avanscoperta as a publishing company, Francesco Strazzullo, who’s also one of our trainers and friends.

👌 Francesco aka Strazz is working on his second book titled “Decision-making for Software Development Teams”, available on LeanPub, an online publishing platform where you buy the book while it’s being written and get regular updates when new content is published… in pure Lean fashion!

❓ Have you ever thought about decision-making when it comes to software development? Curious about it?

👉 On this first episode, we talked about the process of writing a book, what elements you need to take into account when you decide to start such a project, and what experiences have led Francesco to write about this topic.

➡️ Don't miss the next episodes, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel and... see you there! http://bit.ly/SubscribeAvanscoperta ​

📚 Francesco's book "Decision-making for Software Development Teams" is available on LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/decision-making-for-software-development-teams

#DecisionMaking​ #Books​ #SoftwareDevelopment​ #DecisionMakingProcess​ #SoftSkills​ #Software​ #SoftwareDeveloper​ #Developer​ #DevsLife​ #Frameworkless​ #FrontEnd​ #FrontEndDevelopment​ #Book​ #Books​ #NewBooks​ #NewBook​ #BookWriting​ #Decisions​ #BookWriting​ #BookAuthor​ #LeanPub​ #AvanscopertaPublishing​ #TechnicalBook

👉🏾 Argomento
Product Strategy e Lean Value Tree: domande, dubbi, esperienze di chi ha provato ad applicare questo approccio e com'è andata a un anno dal corso con Matteo Cavucci.

🎯 Abstract
Cinque partecipanti alla prima edizione del corso "Product Discovery Workshop con il Lean Value Tree" di Matteco Cavucci hanno accettato il nostro invito a partecipare a una sessione di Q&A pubblica e in diretta streaming. Obiettivo della serata è far emergere le loro esperienze, le loro domande e dubbi dopo quasi un anno dal corso.
Matteo sarà il moderatore e il traghettatore di questa chiacchierata. Una sorta di "Ask Me Anything un anno dopo"! :)

🎙 Moderatore
Matteo Cavucci

📝 Bio
Matteo è, per dirla in inglese, un deep systems thinker, o anche più semplicemente un consulente con oltre dieci anni di esperienza nella progettazione e nello sviluppo lean e agile di processi.

Le sue specialità sono la creazione di strategie basate sui risultati e la progettazione di modelli di governance leggeri, che consentano l’autonomia del team e i processo decisionali collaborativi.

👥 Ospiti della serata
・Claudio Bartoli - Software Crafter at Iconsulting
・Wolfgang Cecchin - Founder at Droplet
・Alessandro Palumbo - AWS Serverless Architect at Byte-Code
・Federica Pecoraro - Head of UX and Founding Partner at Fightbean
・Alessandro Violini - Interaction Designer at Flowing

🔝 Matteo è trainer del workshop "Product Discovery Workshop with the Lean Value Tree" (in inglese): https://bit.ly/Product_Discovery_Matteo_Cavucci_EN_Podcast

#ProductDiscovery #LeanValueTree #ProductStrategy #MatteoCavucci #Agile #Lean #EventStorming #ProductOwner #ProjectManagement #Scrum #Kanban #SoftwareDevelopment #Avanscoperta #Team #TeamLeader

👉🏾 "Come testare il comportamento del dominio"

🎯 Abstract
"Dovendo lavorare con un dominio basato sugli eventi, come possiamo essere sicuri di testare in maniera olistica le sue regole di business? Come ci assicuriamo che le sue mutazioni vengano testate in maniera completa?
In questo talk vogliamo mostrarvi come l’uso dello specification testing possa rispondere pienamente a queste ed altre domande."

🎙 Speakers
Alberto Acerbis e Alessandro Colla

📰 Bio
Alberto Acerbis è socio fondatore di 4Solid S.r.L., una società di sviluppo e consulenza software che cerca di abbracciare la filosofia Agile, dove si occupa di sviluppo e saltuariamente di formazione.
Si reputa un amante di tecnologie informatiche, e grande appassionato di montagna, in tutte le sue forme, considera la partecipazione a conferenze e Community una risorsa indispensabile per crescere e confrontarsi con altri.

Come molti della sua generazione, Alessandro si è avvicinato alla programmazione quando gli regalarono un Commodore64: da lì, il passaggio dal giocare a cercare di fare un gioco fu breve ed iniziò ad appassionarsi ai linguaggi.
Nel corso di ormai più di venti anni passati nel settore IT, Alessandro ha sviluppato verticalizzazioni per gestionali e sviluppato da zero per i più disparati ambiti. Nel 2009 si è avvicinato al DDD e alle pratiche agili e da allora è sempre “alla ricerca della verità”.


🗓 Alessandro e Alberto sono autori di "Practical Event Sourcing and Testing Workshop".
Info e biglietti: https://bit.ly/EventSourcing_CQRS_Podcast

#EventSourcing #CQRS #DDDesign
#Testing #SpecificationTesting #EventStorming #SoftwareDevelopment #DomainDrivenDesign #Avanscoperta #SoftwareArchitecture #Meetup #CorsiPerSviluppatori #TrainingForDevelopers #WebDevelopment #WorkshopForDevelopers #SoftwareDeveloper

👉🏾 Title of the talk
The importance of feedback

🎯 Abstract
Since I started practicing Extreme Programming back in 2003, I have always kept an eye on a not-so-simple concept: feedback. In the beginning, it was all about code and its correctness.
As I grew up as a professional, as a consultant, and as an entrepreneur, I realized that feedback in the software industry meant much more, much broader, much deeper.
Exactly 10 years ago, I tried a systematic approach to this concept. Now that I'm facing new challenges developing digital products, I decided to wrap it up again.
What does feedback should mean to us all working in the digital world? What kind of feedback should we crave? How can we use feedback to enhance our chances of building a successful business?
In this session, I will try to share what I learned, what I was wrong about, and what I hope to have understood correctly for the future of my endeavors.

🎙 Speaker
Jacopo Romei

📰 Bio
Consultant, entrepreneur, trainer, Jacopo works with teams across Italy, France & UK. He is the author of the book "Extreme Contracts" (English version coming soon).
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.
Recently his main focus has been on organisations governance and contract negotiation.
All in all, he hates wasting energy and since 14 years ago work is still in progress: experimenting to work ever-better, to live ever-better, moving forward, one step at a time.

👉 Check out the new workshop in English by Jacopo Romei called Risk Management for Freelancers!
➡️ https://bit.ly/Risk_Management_Freelancers_Jacopo_Romei_Podcast

#Feedback #ExtremeProgramming #RiskManagement #Risk #Freelancer #Freelance #Consulting #ExtremeContracts #BusinessStrategy #BusinessDevelopment #SoftwareDevelopment #Meetup #Remote

👉🏾 Title of the talk
Facilitating Online Agile Retrospectives

🎯 Abstract
Are you seeing new challenges emerging from facilitating online sessions? How do you reflect and adapt to those new challenges?
An Agile Retrospective done right can help decide the sustainable next steps your group needs for its context.
In this 30-minute presentation Enrico will share information on how retrospectives can help with that.
You don’t need to be Agile to run a retrospective!

🎙 Speaker
Enrico Teotti

📰 Bio
Enrico is an agile coach and (visual) facilitator with a background in product management and software development starting in 2001. He worked and lived in Europe (6 years), Australia (7 years), and the US (6 years).
He currently works with Avanscoperta.

Enrico is a visual thinker, if he’s not looking in the camera he’s probably sketching the conversation–lately on his iPad.

He thinks agile is not a recipe to follow but something to tailor to your complex context. He likes to prepare facilitated sessions that are purposeful and meaningful to the group.
He stays well clear of any certification, he attended Cognitive Edge Cynefin Foundations and ICA ORID facilitation training and he’s a member of IAF (International Association of Facilitators).

👉 Check out the new workshop by Enrico Teotti called Online Facilitation Camp Praxis!
➡️ http://bit.ly/Online_Facilitation_Camp_Podcast

#Agile #Scrum #Kanban #AgileCoach #Retrospective #AgileRetrospective #AgileFacilitator #ProductOwner #TeamLeader #AgileTransformation #Agility #Lean #LeanThinking #AgileSoftwareDevelopment #Software #Technology #BusinessStrategy #Avanscoperta #Meetup

👉🏾 Title of the talk
Agile stories from the trenches

🎯 Abstract
In this session, Cédric Pontet and Guy Fabien will tell us about some business cases that they faced.
They will talk about some of their customers who came to them with a specific issue, and how they helped them realize that their problem was actually something else.
They will explain how they helped their customer find the root cause of the issue and then solve their real problem, by embracing an agile mindset.
They will also tell us how this allowed some of these customers to gain new insights about their business, therefore becoming more efficient and generating a new competitive advantage.

This session will be a mix of from the trenches story-telling and Q&A, with the audience being able to ask questions about each specific business case before we move to the next.
The session will be organised in a lean coffee style, addressing one topic after the other, and either moving on to the next topic at the end of the timebox or using some extra time to dig deeper if you are interested.

🎙 Speakers
Cédric Pontet and Guy Fabien

📰 Bio
Cédric Pontet is one of the founders of play14 and he's an Agile/Lean coach with over ten years of experience.

Guy Fabien is an Agile coach with many years of experience. A “metaphorical aesthete”, Guy is a great listener and he loves helping people find out how to foster and apply their “own agile mind”.

Enrico Teotti did a sketch of the meetup, if you wanna look at it while listening to Cédric and Guy talking.
🎨 https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqu9na5tt6w...

👉 Check out the new workshop by Cédric and Guy called Agile Bootcamp!
➡️ https://bit.ly/Agile_BootCamp_Podcast

#Agile #Scrum #Kanban #AgileCoach #AgileFacilitator #ProductOwner #TeamLeader #AgileTransformation #Agility #Lean #LeanThinking #AgileSoftwareDevelopment #Software #Technology #BusinessStrategy #Avanscoperta #Meetup #Play14

#RemoteWorking #SmartWorking #WorkFromHome #HappyTeams #WeAreLearners #DistributedTeams #WFH #Avanscoperta #RemoteMeetup #LavoroDaCasa #LavoroAgile #Meetup

📝 Remote working: come lavorare da casa ed essere felice

🎯 Con grande piacere continuiamo la conversazione sul tema “Remote Working”, focalizzandoci, in questa occasione, su come costruire relazioni sane con il proprio team e lavorare bene con le persone. Al limite della felicità! :D

🎙 L'ospite di questo meetup è Emanuela Damiani, User Experience Designer a Firefox, Mozilla.
Emanuela ci racconterà la sua esperienza come dipendente di un’azienda internazionale, con sedi sparse in parti del mondo diverse e con fusi orari diversi.
Ci racconterà le buone pratiche per aiutarci a lavorare al meglio, sfruttando tutto il potenziale del Remote Working, e come gestirne limiti e difficoltà.

👉🏾 Title of the talk
"Mapping the future of events post-COVID"

🎯 Abstract
"Like it or not, the world of events is one of the most impacted by the current COVID crisis. Everyone is online all the time and the quantity and quality of our interactions have changed drastically over the past months.

Join Simon Wardley of "Wardley Maps" fame for this interactive discussion on what the future might be looking like once COVID is over. Will we back to what was considered normal just a few months ago, or has this pandemic changed the face of the events industry once and for all?"

🎙 Speaker
Simon Wardley.

📰 Bio
Simon Wardley is a researcher for the Leading Edge Forum focused on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. Simon is a seasoned executive who has spent the last 15 years defining future IT strategies for companies in the FMCG, retail, and IT industries—from Canon’s early leadership in the cloud-computing space in 2005 to Ubuntu’s recent dominance as the top cloud operating system. As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination for economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether in behavioral patterns, the environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems, or managing companies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditization, innovation, organizational structure, and cybernetics.

Simon’s most recent published research, “Clash of the Titans: Can China Dethrone Silicon Valley?,” assesses the high-tech challenge from China and what this means to the future of global technology industry competition. His previous research covers topics including the nature of technological and business change over the next 20 years, value chain mapping, strategies for an increasingly open economy, Web 2.0, and a lifecycle approach to cloud computing. Simon is a regular presenter at conferences worldwide and has been voted one of the UK’s top 50 most influential people in IT in Computer Weekly’s 2011 and 2012 polls.

👉 Check out Simon's new 3-hour training called "Wardley Mapping Bootcamp"
➡️ https://bit.ly/Wardley_Mapping_Podcast

#WardleyMaps #Mapping #SimonWardley #ProblemSolving #COVID #COVID19 #CoronaVirus #Events #Meetings #EventsIndustry #EventsProf #EventManagement #Software #SoftwareDevelopment #Avanscoperta #Maps #RemoteMeetup #Meetup

👉🏾 Title of the talk
"The Power of Mob Programming"

🎯 Abstract
"In almost all situations software is created by a group of people contributing their skills and knowledge to the effort at hand. This requires a great deal of collaboration and teamwork.

In most development organizations we find ourselves collaborating in the least effective ways possible. We are plagued with queues and waiting, inventory, countless meetings, context switching, interruptions, disruptions, and multitasking.

What if we could find a way to address these difficulties?

Mob Programming is a very simple concept: Let’s “turn up the good” on collaboration. This is the power of Mob Programming. Let’s find ways to make it easy to collaborate well, to limit work in progress, and to shorten or even eliminate most feedback loops.

Join us as we explore the Power of Mob Programming."

🎙 Speaker
Woody Zuill.

📰 Bio
Woody Zuill is an independent Agile and Lean Guide and Coach and has been programming computers for 35+ years. He is an originator and pioneer of the Mob Programming approach to teamwork in software development and is considered one of the founders of the “#NoEstimates” discussion on Twitter.
His passion is to work with teams to create an environment where every one of us can excel in our work and life, and has provided workshops on Mob Programming for hundreds of teams all over the world.

➡️ Last but not least! Did you know that... Woody is the author of the *online* workshop "Mob Programming": https://bit.ly/Mob_Programming_Woody_Zuill_Podcast

#MobProgramming #Technology #Collaboration #Cooperation #Software #Team #TeamWork #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareDeveloper #SoftwareDev #Coding #Meetup #Avanscoperta #AlbertoBrandolini #PairProgramming #TeamLeader

🎤 Titolo
"Extreme Contracts - Guadagnare di più, lavorando come ci pare"

🎯 Abstract
Per chi è freelance vendersi a tempo ha due grossi difetti: definisce un limite massimo alle prospettive di ricchezza e trasforma in impiegati di fatto, remunerati sulla base dello sforzo e non del valore creato. Un modo nuovo di pensare ai contratti per tornare in possesso del proprio tempo, lavorare con più gratificazione e, importantissimo, rischiare di guadagnare di più!
Jacopo presenterà il suo talk e sarà poi disponibile a rispondere a tutte le vostre domande.

🎙 Speaker
Jacopo Romei

📝 Bio
Consulente, imprenditore, docente, autore di libri. Jacopo lavora con team in Italia, Francia e UK.
Generalmente Jacopo viene ingaggiato da chi vuole sprecare meno tempo, denaro ed entusiasmo e aiuta le persone che lavorano in squadra a lavorare meglio perché il lavoro è un bel pezzo di vita per tutti noi.

Jacopo Romei è autore del workshop online e in inglese "Risk Management for Freelancers": https://bit.ly/Risk_Management_Freelancers_Jacopo_Romei_Podcast

#Tecnologia #ExtremeContracts #Freelance #Freelancer #RiskManagement #Antifragility #Software #SoftwareDevelopment #BlackSwan #WFH #WorkingOnYouOwn #SkinInTheGame