Saturday night, my wife and I got a “date night” – we dropped the kids off, and headed to a “gourmet mexican restaurant” with plans on walking to the local bookstore afterwards. I had brought along my iPad. We finished up dinner, paid, and walked out. It only took me about 7 minutes to realize…
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Slides and Video up from Fostering Software Craftsmanship at Øredev 2010
My slides and video are now up from my Fostering Software Craftsmanship session I held at Øredev 2010 here in Malmö, Sweden. Fostering Software Craftsmanship from Øredev 2010 from Cory Foy on Vimeo. Fostering Software Craftsmanship View more presentations from Cory Foy.
Slides and Video for Delivering What’s Right at Øredev 2010
I had an absolute blast this morning presenting my Delivering What’s Right talk here at Øredev 2010. While I know the conference will be putting a better quality video online, I wanted to go ahead and put up the video I shot from my Flip camera and the slides from the talk. Thanks to Michael…
Koans and Katas, Oh My! Slides and Links From My Øredev 2010 Session
This morning at Øredev 2010 here in Malmö, Sweden I gave a workshop entitled “Koans and Katas, Oh My!”. I covered various learning models, and we did a lot of hands on exercises showing the power of regular practice in the software profession. As one attendee said, “I fell in love with TDD again!”. I…
HOW TO: 10 Tips on Presenting at Conferences
One of my favorite events to attend is BarCamp. They have them all over the world, but I really enjoy the two closest to me – BarCamp Tampa Bay and BarCamp Orlando. They are considered “unconferences†– basically, you register for the event, and the speaking slots are first-come first-served the morning of. If you…
The Keys to the Kingdom
Oh the joys of not being in the grind. From this position I get to see all sorts of stuff about doing “Agile†right. Primarily from a Project Management perspective. But, I’ve got a secret. It’s one of them there plain-sight secrets that turns out to be how successful teams get things done. To us…
XPUniverse 2011
This past week I’ve been attending the Agile 2010 conference here in Orlando, FL. For those who don’t know, the Agile 20xx series of conferences came because of the combination of two separate conferences in 2005 – XPUniverse and Agile Development Conference. Since that time, the conference has grown quite a bit – this year…
Technically Distributed: Tools and Techniques for Distributed Teams
This afternoon at Agile 2010 I ran a session called Technically Distributed: Tips and Techniques for Distributed Teams (slides are at the end of this post). While I gave information about some of the tools I’ve used for teams, I think the key revelations came from two exercises we did. In the first, the teams…
Come Learn About Innovation Games Online This Friday!
Are you interested in learning about Innovation Games? This Friday, June 25th, 2010, I’m going to be facilitating a free game of Prune the Product Tree for the first 8 people to sign up at the registration page. If you’ve been interested in Innovation Games, or want to see what it is all about, this…
Slides and Video from Product Planning and Prioritization with Innovation Games
At XP2010 I gave a workshop on using Innovation Games to do product planning and prioritization. While I was able to post the pictures pretty quickly, I had to process the video and the slides. Below is the video and slides that were presented during the first part of the workshop. The second part was…