Matteo Vaccari

It is possible to write software that solves real business problems, cheaply and reliably. The recipe is well known, even though it's not easy to do.

I am an Extreme Programmer. I help individuals, teams and organization become more effective. I work as a developer for Thoughtworks Italia. I used to teach at Università dell'Insubria.

My best things (IMO)

• 2021 Accelerate development with Simple Design, video of remote presentation on the ShareIT youtube channel. There is also an Italian version
• 2018 How I learned to love mocks, an article on Medium about an often overlooked principle.
• 2017 About the Hexagonal Architecture
• 2014 Perché è così difficile fare Extreme Programming, (Why is it so hard to do XP) keynote at the Italian Agile Day
• 2013 Notes on exception handling, for programmers in Java and similar languages
• 2008 Reuse is overrated, a blog post

Current stuff

• Twitter: @xpmatteo
• Slides: I'm moving them from Slideshare to Speakerdeck
• Github repositories. You might be interested in the Birthday Greetings Kata, or the Open-Closed Principle Dojo. Or see how to do a frameworkless REST service.
• My old Blog, and my newer stuff on Medium.
• Me on Linkedin.

Older stuff

• A list of Italian XP User Groups and related communities.
• I co-organized with Pierluigi Pugliese and Antonio Carpentieri the Agile Coach Camp Italy.
• I co-organized with Federico Gobbo the European Summer School on Agile Programming, 2006-2008
• I am a member of the Italian Agile Movement, and I helped organize several editions of the Italian Agile Day.
• An unfinished book on TDD for Android, in collaboration with Carlo Bellettini.
• Web Applications course (taught from 2003 to 2015)
• Internet Technology and Applications course (taught from 2009 to 2013)
• Operating Systems course (taught from 2000 to 2006)
• My Ph.D. thesis on Calculational Derivation of Circuits

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