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Why I Stepped Down as CTO

I left Skuola.net as CTO to join Radical (formerly BAGBNB) as Engineer. TL;DR I jumped boat, changed role, changed tech stack, I’m enjoying a bit more of tranquillity, I have a bit more family time, I got my (dev) passion back! Way to go folks 😎 Long Story I’m just sharing some reasons for this decision and few insights on…

Career

Tech Challenge Explained

The tech challenged I’ve used in Skuola.net was designed in order to be submitted by any developer, regardless the experience level or the programming language. So the easiest choice was to do an algorithm test, and amongst the infinite list of test you can find online, I’ve picked one based on anagrams. Another self-imposed constraint was about simplicity, no-one should’ve…

Career

Book Review: Domain-Driven Design Quickly

This is my summary of the book Domain Driven Design Quickly, I’ve highlighted the main concepts as a reference.…

Methodologies/Programming

Past Year Review (2019)

It all started as a New Year’s Resolution. This year I wanted to make it happen for real, and, by knowing myself pretty well, I had to put it to a whole new level in order to make it to the end. Moved with all the good intentions of my last certification (AWS Solutions Architect) got in Sep ’18, I…

Time Management

Practical Estimates

It all started while working as CTO (first-time though) at Skuola.net and attending the conference Codemotion Rome 2019, I was listening to Daiany Palacios talking about hers “The trap of averages. How to avoid it in software development estimates” in particular about doing estimates using the Montecarlo method. That moment something triggered in me, like an epiphany… I had put…

Project Management

What kind of shaped professional are you?

The most common one is the T-shaped professional or more correctly T-shaped skills since we’re talking about abilities. The original term was coined by Tim Brown, Chair of IDEO. The vertical bar of the letter T represents the depth of the skills in a single field, instead, the horizontal bar is the ability to collaborate across disciplines in other areas.…

Career

The Tricky Definition of Done

Most of the times the word “done” has a very subjective meaning, especially when we are in a business context. It can be confusing understanding if a task or an activity has been completed or not. I’ll try to define the meaning of done (in a business context), or at least what it should be. This should avoid to end…

Project Management

The practicality of the Eisenhower Matrix

The Eisenhower Matrix helps you decide and prioritise tasks based on urgency and importance. In fact, it is also referred to as the Urgent-Important Matrix. If you find yourself fire-fighting throughout the day, then you should apply this concept to improve your productivity.…

Time Management

Performance Optimisation, my first talk ever

Performance Optimisation from Fabio Cicerchia At the end of 2016, I gave a talk at the PUG Roma meetup talking about web performance. Despite my expectations of a first-time shy speaker, the room was packed with more than 50 attendees.…

Being really agile, Being really smart

The Agile Manifesto has the following 4 core values: Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsthis means to communicate, a lot. Working software over comprehensive documentationif you are working on something that is not working properly why bother documenting what’s doing (and maybe it’s even going to change). Also, the customer will use / buy the software, not the documentation.…