Jacopo Romei

Jacopo is an italian agile coach, developer, writer and singer. After having been a full time freelance agile coach for years, coaching teams across Italy, Germany and UK, he joined ideato's crew.

Jacopo’s main interest is in IT products & software development process, though everything under the umbrella of science fits his tastes. As a writer he has published a paper in experimental ecology and the Apress book “Pro PHP Refactoring”, the latter together with Francesco Trucchia.

He is also a speaker, regularly invited to italian conferences and event about agile or lean software development and management. He actively contributes to more than one XP User Group in Italy and to the italian PHP user group. He also co-organized the Italian Agile Day 2010, the main conference about agile in Italy.

In his spare time he loves downhill biking, sailing, photography and singing a cappella.