Danilo Madonna

Background

About Danilo Madonna

My experience focused on Microsoft technologies for desktop applications, starting with C++ with MFC and evolving to Windows Forms and WPF (C#). Visual Studio, Visual Source Safe and Team Foundation Server have been my main tools. I am experienced in: • Requirements analysis • Software development planning and Team coordination/leading in both V-model and iterative (Agile) developments • Software development for desktop application including relational databases • Architectural design for desktop application: object oriented design, model-view and model-view-view model architectures. • Relational database schema design (ORACLE) • Software configuration management • Customer support I worked on a very long life product: the main challenges I faced in managing this kind of application are- integration of different technologies - incremental design of both user interface, domain data, and persistence (database entities)- ensuring data and user procedures backward compatibility and consistency when new functions are developed - guarantee appropriate source and configuration control to manage software evolution My main rules as team coordinator are- Get the team involved in discussions about requirements analysis, architectural decision, etc. because: o Team members can have good ideas (trust them) o To improve team member commitment they should feel their contribution is important o If all team members have a broad vision of the product they better understand what they are doing reducing the probability of misunderstandings and increasing interchangeability - Avoid or at least mitigate conflicts between team members - Always be collaborative