Italian Agile Days 2015
6 - 7 Nov 2015 at Università degli Studi di Brescia, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione

Talk comments

Pietro Di Bello at 18:42 on 8 Nov 2015

A nice and well exposed talk, really. I like also the intro with the story about Haiti earthquake.
My only doubt is: what should I've learned after the talk? How do I change the way I behave? Now I know that resilience is embodied in some practices and principles (e.g. pair programming, slack time, etc), so what?

on La resilienza, il collante di un team agile

Ferdinando Santacroce at 18:39 on 8 Nov 2015

Andrea did his best to explain a not-so-easy topic. I admit that even now I can't get the essence of this method: I really don't know if it is only a way to catalogue problems and activities, or if I can use it to explore solutions.
This workshop has been funny, but I think I had a problem with Cynefin, at this point :)

on Lego Cynefin Game

Pietro Di Bello at 18:37 on 8 Nov 2015

I really liked the story telling format and the kind of iterative approach to the journey of exploring the continuous delivery topic.

on Continuous Delivery su progetti Java: cosa abbiamo imparato facendoci del male

Ferdinando Santacroce at 18:35 on 8 Nov 2015

One hour and half is probably too little to this kind of workshop. Alberto e Fabio did their best, and the game we played is a great way to think about planning, but we need to fix some issues.
We need a way to let the team leaders find an acceptable way to estimate stories provided by Product Owners (e.g. provide to each team a "1 point story" to use as unit measure); we (team leaders) almost provided random numbers to them.
Then reduce the scope: 8 dev teams was too much.

After that, I had fun playing my role; hope I can attend to another workshop like this another time :)

on Large scale portfolio planning

Pietro Di Bello at 18:33 on 8 Nov 2015

Inspriring and well presented. Definitely ideas to try.
It was sad for me when the time ran out and we were not able to complete the canvas BTW :/

on Agile Talent Development

Ferdinando Santacroce at 18:25 on 8 Nov 2015

I had a great time! Playing with Lego bricks is always funny, but learning new things by them is even better :)
Jacopo and Lorenzo helped us, both managers and developers, to see how near are we, despite the common sense about it.
It's only a matter of will: finding the common path to the target is not so difficult, if you have the right focus on value and a little bit of common sense.

on Managers vs. Developers