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Guilds: growing and sharing knowledge

Each week, we dedicate part of our time to working in Guilds—spontaneous groups of 4 to 8 people formed to learn and share knowledge. Every four months, new Guilds emerge based on topics freely proposed by participants.
Gilda Play 14

Road to Play 14

This Guild was created with the goal of improving “Scrum Quest,” the agile-themed board game developed by the previous “i3 Board Game” Guild in the second quarter of 2023.

Based on feedback from players, the team set the following goals for this new Guild:

  • review existing materials and create content for the updated version of the game;
  • balance the game to ensure it is sufficiently challenging, enduring, and fun;
  • present “Scrum Quest” at “Play 14 Italia,” the serious gaming conference to be held in Florence from September 5 to 7, 2024

The Guild has achieved all its set goals, presenting a new version of Scrum Quest at the Intré Camp conference on October 2. During the unconference, a gaming session was proposed as part of the afternoon activities.

Gilda Intelligenza Artificiale

And Now??!!1!?

One year later, the Guild focused on “Artificial Intelligence and its impact on software development work” returns.

The group started from ChatDev, a public project on GitHub, extending the experiment in an agile context. The STAAS (Scrum Team As A Service) project consists of three specialized agents with their own roles and personalities (PO, DEV, and QA) collaborating to create a software product from a textual intent. Tests and the process leading to a built output in a Docker image are also included.

The project repository is available on the company’s GitLab.

Gilda musica

The Rolling Updates

A Guild dedicated to the world of music.

The band members (bass, vocals, vocals, guitar, guitar, drums) spent hours in the rehearsal room, working both individually and as a group to improve:

  • listening skills;
  • musical knowledge;
  • non-verbal listening to stay synchronized.

At the Intré Camp on June 24-25, the band performed, presenting a mix of musical pieces studied during this Guild.

Gilda D&D

D&D 2

The return of the guild dedicated to the famous fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, first organized in the third quarter of 2022.

Participants were divided into two groups (Monza and Seriate) to experience different adventures in each guild session.

The activity required effort to achieve hidden individual objectives and common goals unknown in advance, encouraging improvisation skills and testing agile abilities in responding to change, such as:

  • learning to work together despite the diversity of team members;
  • providing valuable and appropriate feedback;
  • adopting the Scrum framework for campaign creation, meaning story development. Based on collected feedback, the Dungeon Master refined the campaign according to new specifications.
Gilda Java developer bootcamp

Java Developer Bootcamp

A guild dedicated to studying Java using the book “OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 17 Developer: Exam 1Z0-829“, which thoroughly covers the language from basic concepts (operators, types, etc.) to more complex topics like Functional Interfaces and Streams.

Each chapter of the book includes exercises, so during each meeting, the group dedicated part of the time to theoretical study and the remaining time to solving exercises.

Gilda Game building

Game-building

The guild aimed to learn how to design and implement an online game that is short, fun, and suitable for team-building events.

Team members, both designers and developers, used their UX/UI and programming knowledge to create a project in React and C#.

The game “Guess it!”, available internally, involves interaction where one person must make others guess what they’re thinking through a chat, providing a series of hints represented by fun icons. The web app includes a login form and a general leaderboard.

Gilda i3Presence 1° iterazione

i3Presence

With this guild, the development of a Flutter application began for managing desk bookings and recording office attendance.

Throughout the meetings, the group gained various insights:

  • best practices for developing efficient and responsive Flutter applications;
  • the key steps for publishing an app in stores (Google Play Store and Apple App Store);
  • understanding the technical and administrative requirements for publication.

This first version of the application includes essential features such as authentication, attendance registration, and reporting. The i3Presence project will continue next quarter with another guild.

Gilda E tu di che cloud provider sei

Which cloud service provider are you?

The Guild was created with the goal of acquiring essential skills for using various service providers for application hosting.

During the meetings, participants practiced with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure to learn how to manage different environments, such as testing and production, for deploying and updating an application (the repository is available internally).

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