Ho un ufficio, raramente ho una scrivania dedicata a me. Quello che vi voglio lasciare in questo articolo è il perché di questa scelta, cosa abbiamo imparato in ideato sullo Smart Working e come l’abbiamo messo in pratica.
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Continuous Budgeting
Dalla mia prima esperienza imprenditoriale e fino ad ideato, la compilazione del budget è stata un’attività formativa e ricca di discussioni che mi ha portato a riflettere su molti aspetti del futuro lavoro dandomi una consapevolezza importante sul nostro mondo. Anche se, non nascondo, che per i primi anni abbia un po’ tirato a caso…
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10 anni di symfony
Qualche giorno fa hanno festeggiato 10 anni di Symfony. Anche se non fisicamente a Parigi posso dire che ero (in qualche modo) presente ai festeggiamenti…
(soprattutto intorno al secondo 39)
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Free hugs
Time by time in ideato, like in other IT and not-IT companies, someone needs a hug.
We have to manage on daily basis complex tasks, sometimes also quite frustrating, to talk with customers with lot of confuses ideas and deal with the bleeding edge technologies with no documentation.
Since we chose to adopt a remote office approach, do a proper hug is quite difficult. That’s why we created a proper channel (#abbracciatone, aka big hugs) on slack.
We also are lazy and looking every time for a hug image on google is a pain. To clear this pain I wrote a very little script for slack using a web service (this the Json endpoint url) created with kimono lab and the slack API to send a random hug image on the channel triggered by the command /hugs.
If you want to create your own hugs-bot this is the code you can start from:
Today I had the chance (aka enough free time) to see the “Lean Startup Meets Design Thinking” video from the Google for Entrepreneur channel.
One of the most important concept of the video, with Eric Ries and Tim Brown, is IMHO the Ries’s digression about the modern (agile)companies.
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Moving to London
this is my 2014 april fool!
In the last year I struggled to find the opportunity to create something new, and to give a better chance to my family to prosper in a different (better?) ecosystem.
Luckily, sometimes, we reach our goals.
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A new year, a new conference
Every year I try to raise my daily job participating to the organisation (and/or creation) of new conferences.
Last year I dedicated a lot of my time to BetterSoftware and Kerning (do you know that the 2014 edition of Kerning will be awesome?) and this year I’ll try to bring some not-so-typical topics in a not-so-typical venue.
The conference is named Blank Disrupt, it is organised by a non profit association called Blank (where I’m involved as a member with ideato) and it will be held in Catania, Sicily .
This is no time for searching incremental innovation. The challenges Mankind is facing do not leave any more time. We need disruptive changes. In order to heed new opportunities, putting new tools in action, we are in the need for gamechangers. We have to produce new systems, with new rules.
All this is already happening. And it is what we’re all about.
– Blank Disrupt intro
Blank Disrupt will be held on March 28th (workshops day) and 29th (conference day), in the beautiful town of Catania and the conference stage will be at Benedictine Monastery of “San Nicolò”. As for Kerning we choose to use a gorgeous location, like the Monastery instead a plain hotel/conference center. It is a unique place that tells about the human and historic events of the city on the slope at the foot of Etna, from the ancient times until today.
9 great speakers, relevant innovators in industry will cover all the topics related to innovation from disruptive organisations to methodologies boosting innovation, disruptive technologies and game-changers for business models.
I hope you’ll join me in this (new) adventure :)
This (awesome) 2013 ended. It was a great year for my work, my hobby (conference organizing) and my family.
We are all quite familiar with the Big Bang theory, not the TV serie but the astrophysical thing, from a single instant we have a big explosion and life, universe and everything were created [ok, it’s a little more complex, but who cares?].
Lets try to use the big bang metaphor for our normal (web)work. We start with a single idea and then we have to expand it exponentially adding customer validation, ux design, frontend and backend development, community management and everything is needed to fulfil the scope of the idea.
The Big Crunch is just the opposite. We start with a complex and expanded system and then, little by little, it will be condensed in a single, unique and clear point.
Time by time some customers send me a “Big Crunch Spec Document“.