Pietro Casella

Recent events in Brazil reminded me of this old 2007 track. Remastered

This Is The Best Ad Campaign In App History
Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com

What bet­ter way for an anti-social app to get noticed than by insult­ing its tar­get audi­ence? London-based app design stu­dio ustwo has just put up a pair of bill­boards in the hip­ster heart­land of Shored­itch, East Lon­don, a stone’s throw f…

anti social app. great out of the box thinking! #innovation

Outstanding work, at SIGGRAPH ‘13

Late night Production… architectural work for my 2013 trio project! (yeah baby) Comments?

Oriana, age 3

My answer was.. long long time a go, there was a little black ball, very very tight that was trembling trembling, full of energy and many things inside… full of will to explode. Then, one day… it did! It exploded and thousands of little things came from within. Lights and stars and suns an everything came from within. 

Three of those things where our sun, and two tiny rocks. They where together and stopped just where we’re at and became friends.

The large rock kept spinning around the sun, and the small rock around the large one. They played and played. the sun made the rocks warm.

On the large rock, there was a small seed and some water. You know what happened? — yes dad, a plant! — well done! the first tree was born. Then on the water there where some tiny fish, they ate from the tree, and more where born… after a while, do you remember that story I told you about “fish is fish, that is that”? well, one of those fish did jump out, and started walking (…) he evolved and one day there where men all over.

Wuff! I distracted her enough so that she won’t be asking about who put the dark ball there in the first place :-)

One of the main misconceptions of agile is that you should start working without planning, solely based on user stories.

I found plenty of usefull metaphors by comparing software to the (home/bridge) development projects.

If you imagine constructing a house based on user stories, you get something like this: 

User story 1: User A enters the house by a big white door.

the developer builds a door (unattached)

User Story 2: When user A enters he finds a 4x4 Room A

the developer builds a closed room behind the door.

User story 3: Room A has a door on the left which leads to the living room, 3x5.

the developer “creates” a new door on room A (with a pickaxe) and builds a new living room.

(End of sprint 1 - semi house, no windows)

User story 4: Living room has 5 large windows

pickaxe again…

…

User Story N: Living room windows must face the sun at 9 AM

Bummer! now we need to refactor the whole house, rotating it to face the right direction

You get the point. Developing agile without first analyzing, “architecting” and building the foundations, things can get really hard in the mid term. Worst, if you’re not carefull, your house will be really funny.

Some of my conclusions to date:

• Prior to development, a satisfactory level of analysis must be conducted to ensure that the Architecture is well designed and understood. It is the Architect’s role ensure the right questions are made at the very beginning and to make sure that everybody understands that some things may not be changed by refactoring.
• User stories based development is good because it provides a “human” description of business rules, is great for managing work, ensures “near finished” work at any time and provides enough flexibility for changing direction as you see the work happening, ensuring value anticipation.
• User stories are good for business users to understand but sometimes lack completeness and clearness. It is critical to make sure they’re both complete and clear.

Oriana, age 3

The answer was something like “if it where a cube we’d fall from the end”, “this way we can spin all day long”, “because the wind made it this way”, I also thought about answering “because we’re donuts, and donuts live on balls” (after a while I was thinking of a clever way to teach a child about manifolds)

oh these talented drawing robots…

The lovely weekend @kbh - part 2 (fall is back)

The lovely weekend - part 1

Preparing for the weekend… @kbh

All days start nicely in københavn! 

What a lovelly discovery: Enjeitado by Encostas de estremoz. An incredible Wine that made our lamb chops taste even better :-) 

Full bodied, chocolaty, nutty, and pruny.

I’m getting a box really soon :-)