Italian Agile Day live on Twitter #iag09

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mlanzil Many Sourcesense developers today at #iad09, thanks to @capotribu for the organization 16 minutes ago from web

capotribu Lots of people tweetting from the Italian Agile Day. Follow the #iad09 tag for more! 17 minutes ago from twibble

piraccini Sviluppo software sostenibile, mi piace! #iad09 21 minutes ago from twidroid

rainbowbreeze "scambiando il valore del coraggio per il valore dell’incoscienza" cit jacopo #iad09 22 minutes ago from web

andreabalducci parlo di SCRUM perché SCRUM è nel mio Kernel… sala 1 #iad09 23 minutes ago from TweetDeck

ziobrando Step ONE: define what the Product is. Software is only PART of the product. …I guess it’s "See the whole" … #iad09 27 minutes ago from Tweetie

micheleluconi segue su twitter cosa dicono i tanti partecipanti ai 2 eventi di rilievo di oggi taggati #retisocievoli #iad09 29 minutes ago from web

lucamascaro #iad09 inizia jacopo 33 minutes ago from web

reborg #iad09 presentero’ un’introduzione alla tecnica del #pomodoro alle 15:50 dopo il coffeebreak in sala 5 se qualcuno e’ interessato 34 minutes ago from Tweetie

ziobrando Now following Jacopo Romei #iad09 36 minutes ago from Tweetie

ziobrando Finished my talk at #iad09 I am quite satisfied about the outcome, nice discussion 38 minutes ago from Tweetie

jazzo Saluta tutti i presenti a #iad09 – I have to go… 42 minutes ago from web

rainbowbreeze ego sliding @ #iad09 by jacopo romei 43 minutes ago from mobile web

sleli si passa @jacoporomei… #iad09 43 minutes ago from mobile web

andreabalducci sala 1: Agile e Software sostenibile #iad09 43 minutes ago from TweetDeck

lucamondini inizia lo speech di J. Romei: tutti i miei sbagli e quelli di qualcun altro #iad09 44 minutes ago from Twitterrific

andreabalducci il 2% dell’inquinamento mondiale è prodotto dall’IT: siamo tanti ed abbiamo un peso ed una responsabilità #iad09 about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

andreabalducci RT @lucagrulla: Andrea Provaglio @#iad09: Self-organizing teams are those that (un)consciously follow the system dynamics about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

reborg #iad09 Kanban is not process-heavy or not people-oriented. It deals differently with estimates than XP but leaves team dynamics intact.

A Backlog for a Change

Nice post from Mike Cohn: How Do You Get from Here to Agile? Iterate. | Mike Cohn’s Blog – Succeeding With Agile®.

Historically, when an organization needed to change, it undertook a “change program.” The change was designed, had an identifiable beginning and ending, and was imposed from above. This worked well in an era when change was necessary only once every few years. But in today’s fast-paced, ever changing environment, it makes more sense to create agile organizations, ready to adapt to whatever comes their way.

Evolution is the answer. The path? SCRUM might be one. In general having a backlog and a small dedicated time to improve is (one of) the key to success. Start know, do, learn …  and iterate.

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Screencast available on Thinkcode.TV

My friend Piergiuliano has published, with other relevant developers, the first screencasts on Thinkcode.TV.

By now just in Italian, Piergiuliano has produced in particular a Guide to Test Driven Development:

Check it out!

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Is Win7 Already Leading?

Interesting contest in the famous Lifehacker blog: Share your primary operating system.

Here are the results for Lifehackers’s readers: does it mean that MS did a good job after years of failure (Vista!) in the OS space?

Share your thoughts and your preferences!

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Bruce IS the Boss

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Very funny and interesting: one of the artists I love (Bruce Springsteen, the Boss) cited as a ‘case study’ in one of the publishers I love (Harvard Business School Publishing)!!

Read Three Reasons Why Bruce is the Best Boss in Stew Friedman blog!

Our turbulent world — more networked than hierarchical, more flexible than standardized — demands leaders like Springsteen, who generate loyalty and commitment not so much with their use of positional power and formal authority, but with their authenticity, their integrity, and their creativity.

Bruuuuuuuuuuce!!!!!!

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PierG on Mobile

Thank you to the WordPress.com guys, there is now a mobile version of PierG blog: just going to the usual PierG.WordPress.com site you will se the mobile version.

Here it is a snapshot from my iPhone:

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Who’s the fastest to boot?

Interesting video: fake? Need an update?

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Screwdriver

A friend of mine told me yesterday an interesting concept: “PierG, IT services and people are like a screwdriver, when the users think it is not working they change it”
Are you a screwdriver?
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Early or Late Adopters?

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In adopting IT technologies, IT managers and companies tend to have two kind of strategies.

There are the Late Adopters: they resist resist and resist. They touch their system the less than is possible: what’s stable don’t have to be touched. Less migrations, less change, more continuity to end users.

There are the Early Adopters: they migrate to the new technology ASAP. They don’t want to cope with tails of old technologies, they might be ‘geeks’, they might have demanding users and they prefer to cope with migrations than with service packs or back compatibility. More migrations, more change, more risk, less continuity, more features.

What’s the best approach for you? Are you an early or late adopter?

PierG

The future or the end of mouse and keyboard?

15 years ago I was kidding saying that the future would have been: keyboard with the hands and mouse with the feet. The guys from 10/GUI have a better idea: have a look at this amazing video:

From FlowinData post: Is 10/GUI the Future Replacement of the Mouse and Keyboard?

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