Pietro Di Bello

I am a passionate coder, I like to build products that can change the life of people. I am a coach and a trainer, I feel proud when I can help my teammates to become greater every day at their job. I am an agile developer, I try to embody the agile and lean principles in my professional life. I currently work for XPeppers, where I help clients to shape their ideas into actual digital products, using agile methods, and more generally any approach that can help a project to succeed. Here at XPeppers I put as much effort in developing products as I put in helping my teammates grow, pair-programming with them as much as I can, helping them to progress in their own studies, making code katas with them, and sharing the essence of agile methods. Yes, I love agile methods! I started with eXtreme Programming (XP) in 2002, in the first XP team in Italy. Then I widened out my experiences with Scrum, Lean and Kanban, which all have great and inspiring principles. In the end, "being agile" basically boils down to inspect & adapt, work in tiny steps, use short feedback loops, learn constantly and visualize everything. And work together. Technically speaking in my career I've used Java and Ruby extensively, and sometimes Javascript. And now I love Kotlin, it's fun and effective to use! But, besides programming languages, I try to learn and use techniques which help me work better, reducing the risks and lowering the stress, in any context I may happen to work: Test-Driven Development, Refactoring, Continuous Integration, Project Automation (and DevOps practices, too) among others. I'm also a firmly believer in the power of Visualization, from visualizing the value stream of a production process, and capturing the workflow of a team on a board, to sketching ideas and diagrams. All those activities, in my experience, helps you and your team building a shared understanding, creating alignment between people and grasping new and unrealized insights and improvement opportunities.