Agile Software Engineering

Alessandro

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This podcast explores how craftsmanship, architecture, engineering rigor, and organizational practices come together in modern R&D environments. Each edition refines and deepens my earlier reflections, building a coherent and evolving body of knowledge around Agile Software Engineering

3 天前

Clean Code, Clean Planet – How Software Design and Coding Practices Shape Our Digital Carbon Footprint

New podcast episode: “Clean Code, Clean Planet – How Software Design and Coding Practices Shape Our Digital Carbon Footprint” In it, I explore a simple idea that often goes unnoticed: software may be virtual, but its impact is physical. Everyday engineering decisions — from algorithms and design choices to architecture, usability, and team culture — quietly consume real energy and scale globally. The episode looks at this through six familiar engineering lenses: 🔹 Clean Code 🔹 Clean Design 🔹 Clean Architecture 🔹 Clean Usability 🔹 Clean Responsibility 🔹 Clean Thinking This is not about green rules or guilt. It’s about awareness — and seeing good engineering not only as a quality practice, but as a contributor to a more sustainable digital world. 💡 Clean engineering isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing only what truly matters — clearly, efficiently, and consciously. 👉 Read the full article here: “Clean Code, Clean Planet”

14 分鐘
5 天前

From Toyota to Agile: Using Lean Tools in Agile Engineering

I just published an improved version of my article: “From Toyota to Agile: Using Lean Tools in Engineering” In it, I share how a few Lean tools I first learned from “The Toyota way” have followed me throughout my career - and how they fit beautifully into Agile engineering to make it more powerful and effective. Some of my favorites include: 🔹 Value Stream Mapping 🔹 Visual Management 🔹 Kanban 🔹 Kaizen 🔹 5 Whys They may sound simple, but when applied consistently they can transform how teams collaborate, focus, and deliver. 💡 Agile brings adaptability. Lean brings clarity and discipline. Together, they make engineering teams unstoppable. 👉 Read the full article here: “From Toyota to Agile: Using Lean Tools in Engineering”

18 分鐘
2025/12/16

Surrounded by Talents: The Leader’s Role in Developing People

Throughout my career, the most meaningful achievements were not technologies, architectures, or deliveries - they were the people who grew around me. Many of them went on to become leaders, architects, innovators, and trusted voices in their organisations. For me, that has always been the real success measure of leadership. In this new podcast, I reflect on what it truly means to be surrounded by talents - how to recognise potential early, how to support people without micromanaging, and why mentorship is not an optional activity, but a core responsibility for anyone in a leadership position. I also connect these experiences to research on psychological safety, stretch learning, and mentoring - and even to the Danish ATU initiative, which shows that talent development can begin much earlier than we often think. If you are a leader, an aspiring leader, or someone who simply cares about people and growth, I hope this reflection resonates. 👉 Read the full article here: Surrounded by Talents

15 分鐘
2025/12/11

The Secrets of Efficient Stand-Ups

The Secrets of Efficient Stand-Ups - Why They Fail, and How to Make Them Work Most stand-ups feel like this: “Yesterday I did X, today I’ll do Y, no blockers.” A round of micro-monologues… and very little actual coordination. In my new article, I explore why stand-ups so easily drift into status reporting-and how small changes can transform them into the most valuable 15 minutes of your day. Here’s what you’ll take away: • Why focusing on individuals destroys team flow • How walking the board unlocks real collaboration • The one question that instantly elevates any stand-up 👉Read the full article here

18 分鐘
2025/12/09

The Human AI Detector

SPECIAL EDITION! “THE HUMAN AI DETECTORS - And Other Familiar Enemies of Progress” Today’s post is a little different from my usual deep dives into engineering culture, architecture, and leadership. This one is a Special Commentary Edition - because sometimes the funniest (and most revealing) lessons about modern work come from outside the codebase. We’ve all lived through the same old warnings: 🧮 “Calculators will make you forget math.” 📱 “SMS will make you forget grammar.” 👥 “Social media will destroy real friendships.” And now the 2025 classic: 🤖 “AI will make your brain stop working.” Meanwhile, anyone who has actually used an LLM knows the opposite is true: 👉 AI is a productivity multiplier. But here’s where the story gets interesting… There’s a growing group I call THE HUMAN AI DETECTORS - often in recruiting and headhunting - who live in a perfect paradox: “We help you improve your LinkedIn with AI!” …but also… “We reject applications if they used AI!” It’s like telling a finance candidate not to use Excel, an engineer not to use CAD, or a driver not to use power steering because “real drivers use muscle.” In this commentary piece, I explore why this mindset exists, why it’s flawed, and what it reveals about our relationship to technology, truth, and talent. This one is humorous - but with a serious message underneath. 👉 Read the full Special Commentary Edition here: THE HUMAN AI DETECTORS - And Other Familiar Enemies of Progress

13 分鐘
2025/12/07

How to Tame the SAFe Tiger

SAFe can bring structure and alignment across large organizations. But applied mechanically, it often feels less agile than Scrum — and resistance follows. In this article, I argue that real success comes from: Anchoring SAFe in mindset over mechanicsAdapting it to context, not copying a frameworkEmpowering Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers as true change agents🔎 Does SAFe amplify agility in your organisation — or add unnecessary overhead? 👉 Read the full article here:

18 分鐘
2025/12/04

Vibe Coding: Speed, Hype, and the Engineering Reality

Vibe Coding is here. And it’s impressive -but also risky. We’re entering a new era where developers describe what they want, and AI generates entire applications: logic, UI, tests… everything. So the big question becomes: Is this the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for -or just the latest silver bullet? To find out, I built a real example using only natural language. It worked -but it also revealed important risks: ➡️ Vibe coding jumps directly from prompt to code. ➡️ It skips design and architecture completely. ➡️ Without those, systems become fragile and impossible to oversee. In the podcast, I cover: • what vibe coding actually is • a hands-on example (user story → code → tests) • the architectural risks nobody talks about • how engineering discipline restores safety • a simple hybrid model for real-world use • platforms worth exploring If you’re curious about how AI will fit into modern R&D -this podcast hopefully will give you some answers. 👉 Read the full article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vibe-coding-speed-hype-engineering-reality-alessandro-guida-t7jsf/

18 分鐘
2025/11/23

Managing Dependencies in Agile Teams — Why Discipline Is the Real Enabler of Agility

Most Agile models assume teams can work fully independently. But in real R&D organisations — especially those with shared platforms, legacy systems, or compliance constraints — inter-team dependencies are everywhere. Ignoring them doesn’t make you more “agile.” It just makes the blockers invisible. In this podcast, I explain how light-weight discipline (not heavy frameworks) can dramatically improve flow, quality, and predictability — even without going full SAFe. You’ll find: The real challenges hidden inside dependenciesPractical, discipline-based techniques that work in any organisationCommon pitfalls most teams fall intoA more pragmatic, engineering-driven view of agilityIf you want to read the full article it is here.

16 分鐘
2025/11/20

Agile Transformations: A Capability Maturity Perspective

This edition examines Agile Transformations — not as a process rollout, but as an organizational maturity journey. If Agile is to help us build better software, not just follow rituals, we need to understand how culture, architecture, leadership, and context interact. I hope you’ll enjoy this updated edition — and join the newsletter if you haven’t already. You can read the full article here.

13 分鐘
2025/11/20

From Moonshot to Sustainable Innovation

From Moonshot to Sustainable Innovation Most companies celebrate their first big idea — the moonshot that gets them off the ground. But very few manage to repeat it. Why? Because real, continuous innovation isn’t luck. It’s a system — built on people, environment, and structure. In this new article, I share the simple 3-part framework I’ve used across multiple companies to transform “once-in-a-while creativity” into a repeatable innovation engine: 🔎 Hire for curiosity 🎬 Feed the creative engine 🔁 Institutionalize the innovation process These ideas were shaped over many years: from early startup environments to Inspiration Days, innovation sprints, and team cultures obsessed with learning. If your organization wants more than a single breakthrough — if it wants sustainable innovation — this is for you. If you want to read the full article it is here.

12 分鐘
2025/11/20

It’s Time to Treat Software Engineering Seriously

It’s time to treat software engineering seriously. For years, Agile has relied on playful metaphors — tribes, squads, trains, sprints, even pigs and chickens. These made the frameworks easier to sell, but they also made our profession look less like engineering and more like a playground. Today our systems run hospitals, railways, satellites, and financial infrastructure. The language, mindset, and expectations must match that responsibility. In this second issue of the Agile Software Engineering newsletter, I argue for a shift toward clarity, engineering discipline, and frameworks rooted in Lean, DevOps, and architecture — without losing creativity or innovation. If you would like to read the full article it is here.

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This podcast explores how craftsmanship, architecture, engineering rigor, and organizational practices come together in modern R&D environments. Each edition refines and deepens my earlier reflections, building a coherent and evolving body of knowledge around Agile Software Engineering

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