Today I speak to Marco Consolaro and Alex Di Gioia. Together, they run training courses for software engineers as part of their company, Alcor Academy. They are highly experienced software engineers themselves, each of them having around 20 years of experience in the industry.

In this time, they independently came to the same conclusions about what leads to effective development teams. When they met at a previous employer, Marco and Alex began coaching other employees and through this process, they came up with many exercises and innovative approaches to teaching. They captured this knowledge in their book called ‘Agile Technical Practices Distilled’. Following on from the book’s success, they now run Alcor Academy to interactively teach the book’s content and more.