Author: Cory Foy

Some exciting news from the Day of Ruby event – in addition to the Tampa Day of Ruby being held on May 16th (which has 1/3rd of the slots gone already – so sign up quick!), I’m excited to announce that we’ll be holding an Orlando Day of Ruby on May 30th! Both events are…

One thing that has always amazed me is the giant leaps we take in organizations to protect the salary information of others. Even telling another employee your own salary is a firable offense in some companies – much less finding out what everyone makes. I’m a firm believer in things like Maverick and SEMCO where…

With all the hubbub around the World Agile Qualification Boards and other certifications, I wanted to make sure that teams were getting the most out of their capabilities. So I’ve created the Agile Object-Oriented Maturity Model Certification. You can get all the details at the site. Sign up today!

Steven List asks if Retrospectives are an antipattern. The question actually came from Chris Matts, and was a point I agreed with – the more mature a team, the less likely they will need formalized retrospectives. To explain more, check out Patrick Kua’s Model for Understanding Retrospective Impact. The key thing that struck me is…

Respect is perhaps one of the most fundamental tenets of any team. Before a team can even begin to address the 5 Dysfunctions, they must learn to respect each other. Fundamentally, there are two different meanings for respect – one being a reverence for a particular person. For example, we may have significant respect for…

Everything is now finalized for the first Day of Ruby event, which will be held May 16th in Tampa, FL. This is a free event for anyone interested in getting hands on with Ruby and Rails (especially .NET and Java developers). For all of the details, and to register, head over to http://tampa.dayofruby.com or follow…

A couple of cool going-ons over the next several weeks: On Monday, March 2nd, David J. Anderson will be in Tampa for one day. We’re going to do a get-together in the evening, so if you are interested, let me know via email (foyc at this blog) or on Twitter at cory_foy. David is putting…

In my overview post on this series, I used the term discipline, and still believe in that term. Some people commented that it may be confusing, since there are so many ways we think of and talk about discipline. The easiest way to explain it is with this awesome quote from The Fifth Discipline: The…

In my last post on discipline, I discuss disciplines as being the thing that kicks in when motivation fails you. More importantly, I state that there are specific disciplines which I believe apply across software developers wishing to be better at what they do. In doing research for this topic, I came across many references…

On Friday, I got the opportunity to attend the excellent acts_as_conference right here in Florida (over in Orlando). The conference is a one-track Ruby conference that had about 130 attendees show up. I was excited by both the schedule and the attendees, and though I was only able to attend on Friday, I wasn’t disappointed….