Guilds: growing and sharing knowledge

The guild is the third iteration of the “Scrum Quest” project, the agile-themed board game developed by the “i3 Board Game” guild during the second semester of 2023 and already showcased at the 2024 edition of the #play14 event. During the available sessions, the team worked on the following objectives:

• Balancing the game by simplifying its core dynamics.
• Making “Scrum Quest” a product more aligned with the world of training and professionals in the field.
• Highlighting the concept of iterative and incremental development.

A major achievement was the presentation of the improved version of the game at the 2025 edition of #play14, held from June 5 to 7 in Figino Serenza (Co).

The project aims to practically and collaboratively explore the most widely used technologies and tools in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. The guild is committed to achieving four main objectives:

1. Hands-on Experience with Cloud: Deepen the use of leading cloud services for the design, deployment, and management of scalable and secure IoT infrastructures.
2. Development of a Generic IoT System: Build a platform capable of collecting, processing, and analyzing data in real time from various types of devices, using a modular and reusable architecture.
3. Automation with Terraform: Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques to automate the provisioning and configuration of cloud resources using Terraform.
4. AI Model Integration: Experiment with artificial intelligence to analyze data streams, with the goal of training models that can generate real-time insights.

The Guild studied how the latest deepfake tools work, focusing on AI-generated multimedia content. The work was organized as follows:

1. Study of deepfake theory.
2. Analysis of tools for creating deepfakes.
3. Ultrarealistic deepfakes, considering three scenarios:
   1. Italian-to-Italian dubbing → Lip sync → Professional voice
   2. Dubbing of famous people → Partial video editing
   3. Realistic avatar → Professional voice → Real-time avatar → Knowledge base → Zoom call → Web app
4. Ethics of deepfakes.
5. Penetration testing and phishing.
6. AI Influencers.

At the Intré Camp unconference on June 13, the Guild hosted a dedicated session on the three ultrarealistic deepfake scenarios.

The Guild was created to explore the topic of accessibility (Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC, and autism) and, by understanding user needs, to design and test a solution while gathering insights.

The team, working alongside people familiar with this world (an expert educator in autism and AAC, and a mother), held a workshop and later developed a physical kit that includes:

• • a portable printer to quickly create AAC symbols (PratiCAA Printer),
  • a communication notebook,
  • a weekly activity calendar,
  • instructions for use.

A digital diary has also been created, a tool to help professionals keep track of all the children’s information, share progress and support materials with school and family.Last but not least among Guild’s outputs is an app that tests prints with PratiCAA, from mobile.

Last among Guild’s outputs, but no less important, there is also an app that tests prints with PratiCAA, from mobile.

At the Intré Camp unconference on June 13, the Guild hosted a deep-dive session on AAC and autism topics.

The Guild was created with the goal of deepening knowledge of the DevOps world, with a particular focus on:

• DevOps methodology and automation through CI/CD pipelines.
• CI pipelines with GitLab.
• Improving code quality and security.

As an output, ready-to-use CI templates were implemented (Java with Spring Boot, C# with .NET, TypeScript with Angular), along with a Docker Compose setup for running GitLab locally.

A technical article will be published soon on our company blog.

Do the low-code and/or no-code solutions currently available on the market offer an advantage in developing digital products? How does AI integrate into these workflows? Are AI Agents more effective?

The members of this Guild, after dedicating the first sessions to exploring the pros and cons of low-code and no-code approaches, identified two simple applications to develop using — of course — low-code and no-code solutions:

• Lucky Wheel (no-code): a web app that, once the names are entered, generates a wheel with each name written on a segment. When the wheel spins, it selects a winner at random.
• Pizza Finder (low-code): a web app that, given an image of a pizza menu (with ingredients) as input, returns all the pizzas containing the searched ingredient, if available.

Both apps were developed with the support of AI Agents such as GitLab Copilot.

The Guild was established with the aim of studying and understanding the use of Axon Framework, one of the solutions offered by AxonIQ (our partner), a company that provides a platform for developing event-driven microservices applications using the concepts of CQRS and Event Sourcing.

To gain a deeper understanding of Axon Framework, the group followed the training programs provided by AxonIQ Academy, organized by role (Java Developer, Operations, etc.). In addition to learning how to use the tool, the Guild collaborated with the IoT Guild to integrate the framework into the project by developing the “i3Device” app, complete with frontend and backend.

The first iteration of this Guild developed a PoC to integrate microservices into the internal application used for time reporting: an operational backend under development and the analysis of the Skill Matrix.

In this second edition, the work continued to bring the system to a more advanced stage. The project was deployed in both development and production environments, the backend was further improved, and the frontend was implemented.

The next step aims to have fully functioning development and production environments, integrate testing (both backend and frontend), start using the app, and possibly evaluate its integration into the internal time reporting application.