Author: Cory Foy

Michael Feathers just posted a new tool he wrote called Vise. Basically it snapshots the values of your variables that you want to track, so if you rerun it it will catch anything that has changed or is missing. It’s still pretty Alpha stuff, but is definately worth a look.

At the Agile 2006 conference, we were sitting around a table discussing Agile within organizations, I believe with some people from Capital One. One of them talked about trying to go Agile, and my coworker Marc said: Being Agile is like being pregnant. You either are or you aren’t. You just have to work it…

Finally got the photos uploaded. Here some shots from around Agile 2006. I figured out that by next year I need to find out what type of lens Tom Poppendieck is using, since I shot several photos in the same room as him and his came out much better. Scott Ambler, talking about his survey…

File under “Things I’ll go searching for in about 2 years and won’t be able to find” We’ve been doing a lot of crazy things with Oracle at work. Our team has been using some Advanced Queuing features to pass XML data down, and then shredding the XML into tables. It’s great fun. Today we…

Sorry I haven’t gotten the last Agile 2006 post up. We’ve just made it back to Missouri after enduring the radiator blowing up in our car (with 2 adults, a 6 week old infant, and our 2 dogs) in Chattanooga, TN. Everything should be caught up by tomorrow night at the latest.

First – I realized that I misnamed the days. So, I’ll just call this “Thursday”. I decided that, because I hadn’t had a chance to hear him speak yet at this conference, I would head over to Bob Martin’s Clean Code talk first thing. And it’s a good thing I did – the room filled…

Before we get started, Dave Nicolette asked if I wouldn’t mind posting some of the discussion that came out of the interviewing talk. We had several people in an open space session discussing how they hire agile people. We all agreed that pair programming was an important part. It seemed like pretty much everyone had…

Today was a tough day with so many good sessions and OpenSpace events going on. After much debated, I started the day off in Todd Little’s Context Driven Agile Leadership. Just before his presentation started, I was talking with a genetleman from a consulting firm out of D.C. who said something interesting: “Anybody can rearrange…

Whew. This is my first year being able to come to the annual Agile conference. It is definately everything I thought it would be so far, and I’m having a blast. Here’s a recap of some of the more interesting things that have happened over the past 2 days: Sunday (Day 1): The day started…

First, my apologies for the length of time since my last post. I’ve been travelling and haven’t had good access to the internet. I’m at Agile 2006 now and will be posting updates shortly. However, on July 15th, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Tampa Code Camp at the University of South Florida…