Jacopo is an Italian agile coach, developer, writer and singer. He has been working as a PHP developer since 1999 and as a full time agile coach for 6 years, coaching teams across Italy, Germany and UK.

Jacopo published a paper in experimental ecology and the Apress book “Pro PHP Refactoring” and reviewed Jurgen Appelo’s ‘Management 3.0″.

He is a serial speaker, regularly invited to Italian and European conferences and events about agile or lean software development and management. He also actively contributes to more than one XP User Group in Italy and to the Italian PHP user group and also co-organizes the Italian Agile Day 2011, the main conference about agile in Italy.

In his spare time Jacopo loves contributing to the Symfony CMF project, downhill biking, sailing, photography and singing acappella.