Invisible to the eye

I wouldn't call mob programming a methodology, but rather a practice that can be adopted. Like methodologies, however, it only surfaces ...

I don't have a frame of reference for mob programming in a co-located environment, besides conference (or team exercise) workshops that ...

Our implementation of mob programming consists in a permanent Google Meet videocall, with camera on, in which we rotate a developer sharing ...

With respect to a team assigning tasks to developers by their function (frontend, backend, infrastructure, and so on), mob programming foste...

I've been practicing remote mob programming in my team for more than a year, writing more than 90% of production code inside a video ca...

This is a spur-of-the-moment review of The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team , a business novel on team health that I've read today as part of ...

Not liquorice Post originally shared on eLife 's internal blog, but in the spirit of (green) open access here it is. Last month I...

I'm still reading (really slowly, in order to absorb informations better) Test-Driven Development by example by Kent Beck.The author cit...

Tomorrow I'm going to Italian Agile Day in Genoa. It is not a long trip, but I will wake up at 5 am. If you want to chat, code or insu...

During a workshop of Francesco Trucchia I've been introduced to the Pomodoro technique for time management. I've known the existen...

Today I was working with a Java framework which runs on top of OSGi (another framework, and yes, Java is verbose even from the platform sta...

There's an old joke that goes like this: One day a pilgrim was walking towards Santiago and, during the way, he encountered a philosoph...

Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn is a masterpiece on Agile management techniques, especially in dealing with schedules and appl...

I have been inspired by a post by Soon Hui to write about my mistakes. I have evolved much on the programming side during these years, but ...

Many software development practices and methodologies are presented as panaceas and silver bullets, seeming to be valid in every domain and ...

Here's a roundup of the posts that made me think the most last week in the blogosphere and that deserve to be recommended. I also wrote ...

Many blog posts (also of mine) contain acronym and abbreviations which have spreaded in the agile world. Every now and then words like TDD, ...

For a software developer that face the challenge of creating maintainable and extensible applications, which provide value to users, there ...