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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.…

Branching Model: clean-up those repos

Usually, most rookie developers don’t use a VCS (Versioning Control System), like SVN or GIT, in this post I won’t talk about the benefits of using one. This post is dedicated to who are already using a VCS without using a branching model. So, what’s a branch? A branch is a separate development line, where you or your team can…

Versioning Numbers, make them meaningful

The version number itself, and more generally the way you manage it, is most of the time underestimated because it’s considered something trivial.It is used to give a chronological order to the software releases and it conveys the useful information about the state and the impact of the release. I can think only of two major way to assign a…

Retrieve JS Events: how to get all of them

I was trying to face an apparently huge problem, collect all the events bound to the DOM elements. Then I realised that the main obstacle was the browser, yes the browser.Because of the way the browser manage the events. So I started my research about it, nothing came from Google or StackOverflow. This answer made me think and for a…

Web

Browser Fingerprinting: There’s no place where you can hide

The EFF, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, did research about the users’ privacy and how it is possible to identify the user in a quite unique way.The concept is based on gathering as much information as possible, like user agent (browser and version), resolution, plugins installed, timezone, language, and so on to create a message digest to identify the user /…

Web