In this episode, I talk with Jacopo Romei, an Italian freelance consultant, entrepreneur, and writer, who is the author of the book "Extreme Contracts - Knowledge Work from Negotiation to Collaboration". We discussed extreme contracts and how they can improve collaboration and trust in knowledge work, the cons of time and materials and fixed-price contracts, and how the wrong form of contract can affect the success of product development. (01:45) Jacopo Before Extreme Contracts (04:35) The Trigg...
Aug 08, 2024•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is all about teamwork through the lens of mob programming. Who better to talk about it than the mob programming masters from @mobmentalityshow ? Chris and Austin have been practising mob programming for years and have explored it from multiple angles, either from their day-to-day jobs or through their podcast. We discussed the 101 of mob programming, how to get started with it, its benefits on the team and company level, job satisfaction and much more! (03:15) Why mob programming? (...
Jul 30, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, I dive deep into the world of early-stage startups with Apurva, CTO of Kodoos Labs and founder of Sidetrack. With a background that spans software engineering, product management, and entrepreneurship, Apurva brings a wealth of experience and insights from the startup world. We discussed the role of founding engineers, the challenges of maintaining collaboration as a company scales, the changing role of leadership in different startup stages, the hiring process for early-stage s...
Jul 16, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Christian Varisco is a fractional CTO with a decade of experience in the startup ecosystem who helped more than 10 startups build their tech products and teams. In this episode, we discussed the essential skills to become a Fractional CTO, the challenges involved, why startups succeed, and some handy tips to kickstart your own product business. Follow Christian LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianvarisco/ Follow Peppe LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peppesilletti X - https://x...
Jul 02, 2024•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Luca Rossi is an entrepreneur, founder of Refactoring.fm, and former CTO at Wanderio. Refactoring is one of the biggest newsletters dedicated to engineering managers and software developers on the web, with 75K+ readers at the time you're reading this. In this episode, we discuss Luca's journey of building Refactoring, the importance of writing to clarify thoughts and improve one's job performance, how writing can drive change in the industry, and much more. (02:01) Building a successful newslet...
Jun 19, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Else Van Der Berg is an interim product lead and a product validation and discovery enthusiast. She works with B2B SaaS product teams to move from a feature-driven to an outcome-driven way of working. In this episode, we discuss the challenges of hiring and fostering a culture of experimentation, the importance of a strong partnership between product managers and engineers, leadership buy-in, and employee motivation in driving a shift toward outcome-driven product development. 02:45 Else'...
Jun 03, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Guido Penta is a tech recruiter and he loves talking with developers. He started La Locanda Del Tech, one of the biggest Italian communities for developers, and founded forloop.tech , a subscription-based recruiting service. In this episode, we discuss how important it is for recruiters to speak the language of developers, the power of communities, and personal branding. 01:04 A story of burnout 08:19 Talking the language of developers 14:56 The economic situation also affected Italy 18:59 The j...
May 15, 2024•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gordon Evans is a real architect - the ones who design buildings. He founded Yoop Knows, a cloud-based management system for architects that helps them in their day-to-day business. 01:50 The Need for Technology in Architecture 04:46 Building a Proof of Concept for Yoop Knows 09:59 Focusing on the Key Problem to Solve 16:08 Building for the Market, Not Just Ourselves 17:37 Starting Small and Building a Community 27:44 Restructuring Software for Different User Roles 41:01 The Desire for a Highly ...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast “If you only have the product managers and UX in the teams speaking with customers and hearing the customers, you will have, two people with this part of the picture. And only two people would come with ideas of how could we solve or how could we tackle some opportunities or how could we solve certain problems. If you have the full team understanding this, your ideation power is way higher." - Carlos Rosão Hey everybody! This is Peppe, welcome back to the Invisible Algorithms Podcast! In to...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast "Most places are still very project and deadline focused. And most places see software developers as a liability and the software is the asset. But if there's one thing we've learned in the last 70 years of developing software, it's usually the other way round. The team is the asset and the software itself is a liability, particularly the code, it's going to cost you a lot of money." - Jason Gorman Hey everybody! Welcome back to the Invisible Algorithms Podcast. Today’s...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast "In software, the fundamental question is definitely a billion-dollar question, probably way more: is software a linear activity that you can decompose or is it something complex that you will perform very poorly if you try to attack it with a group of people as opposed to a team? Well, I think that by definition is a very complex activity. And the reason why is that not only are people involved, but you're trying to create another system, which is a software system" - Michele Soll...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast "I haven't seen anyone in any company, any director, any stakeholder that doesn't want something to improve their objectives better. When they come with solutions and prescriptions, it's usually because they've been burned with the past. They've been burned by things that don't work for them. So if they don't get that confidence from the teams they're working with, the natural reaction is to do it yourself, right?" Hey everybody! This is the first episod...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast "I felt my duty as their scrum master, as their coach, was to make sure that the person who was quiet in the corner had their chance to speak. Maybe they didn't want to, and that's fine. But creating space for other people to share thoughts and their ideas and their creativity made us get better. And it's all about people in that opportunity is how can we connect people and let them share their voice." In this podcast episode, Shaun Thompson, an expert in Scrum and agile me...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast "Talk with your customers and talk among yourselves in the team. I think communication is the first step to a well-functioning team and a well-functioning organization getting these feedback loops as tight as possible. So talk with customers, talk with each other, and don't complicate things more than they need to be. Always keep it simple." In the second episode of the Extreme Software Adventures podcast, Luis Rodrigues, a polyglot product engineer from Lisbon, joins host Giuseppe...
Feb 22, 2024•50 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Grab a coffee and tune in as Peppe chats with software whiz Luís Soares in this eye-opening podcast episode, "The biggest myths in software development with Luís Soares" It's all about shaking up the usual ideas in software development and discovering what really works. Luís is really passionate about product development and knows his way around all kinds of programming languages. He's here to shake things up, big time. Forget the old-school stuff; Luís is all about eXtreme Pro...
Feb 22, 2024•55 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 
