Alfredo Morresi and Piergiorgio Grossi, two of the other bloggers invited at the Better Software conference, published their schedule of the talks they want to attend to so I thought it’s about time I’d do the same.
Better Software is split in three parallel tracks with a lot of speeches. The name of the tracks are self-explanatory: Auditorium, Workshop, Interactive.
So, here is my schedule:
5th of May
09:00 – Application Store, potenzialità e trappole – Stefano Sanna will talk about the new distribution (and hence business) model introduced by the application stores of the various smartphones vendors.
09:50 – Sviluppare e vendere applicazioni per iPhone – Omar Cafini will give an overview on application development for the iPhone and how to actually sell those apps on the store.
10:25 – Una storia di SW dai protocolli alla startup – Leandro Agrò will retrace the steps of the creation of the company WideTag
11:35 – Playing between the Clouds – Daniele Montagni, Davide Cerbo and Stefano Linguerri will show the crowd how to create a “hybrid” application using technologies like XMPP, Google App Engine, the iPhone and the Android.
12:10 – Startup Web in Italia. Si può fare – Andrea Santagata‘s talk will be focused on his experience as an entrepreneur and manager and how to create a startup business in Italy.
14:00 – Alcune lezioni che ho imparato negli ultimi due anni – Giacomo “Peldi” Guillizzoni will talk about Balsamiq. The company, his experience and his suggestions.
15:55 – Crowdfunding, finanziare un’idea con il Web – Alberto Falossi will give his take about funding an idea with the help of the people on Internet.
16:55 – Web crawling for fun and profit – Federico Feroldi will talk about how cloud computing helps companies retrieving large quantity of data.
17:45 – Sviluppare Applicazioni Mobile Native in HTML e JavaScript – Fabio Franzini will raise the attention on how to develop mobile applications using standard technologies like HTML and JavaScript.
6th of May
09:00 – Agile Lean Development, a war story – Fabio Armani will talk about his experience as an engineer and a manager with Scrum, XP and Lean.
09:50 – Lavorare da remoto, le ragioni di una scelta vincente – Renzo Borgatti will share his experience of working remotely in a distributed team.
10:25 – Agile tricks, keep the moral of your team high – Giovanni Intini will explain how to encourage developers to improve and maintain an high quality standard of the source code using small tricks, continous integration and more.
11:25 – Agile and QA… ma che ciazzecca? – Stefano Fornari will introduce the role of the QA tester in an agile team.
12:15 – Qualità Totale – Jacopo Romei will talk about defects in production software and how to handle them in an agile process.
14:00 – Coaching Worshop – Matteo Vaccari and Simone Casciaroli will explain in their workshop the role of the coach creating a team and sharing responsibility with fellow developers.
15:10 – Alla ricerca della user story perduta – Edoardo Schepis‘s user stories will lead the workshop attendants through and to the creation of a search engine starting from the following single story: “As a user I want to search Internet for the information I need”.
17:20 – WorseSoftware: errori e orrori nel business del software – Luca Mearelli will take us down to the path of software horrors to shed some light upon the worst and best practices of software development.
