Cory Foy

Thanks to everyone who came out to my Distributed Agility talk at Southern Fried Agile 2014. You can find the slides from the talk below:

A huge thanks to Arjay Hinek and Greg Neighbors with Red Hat for having me out at the 2014 Red Hat Agile Conference. Here’s the slides from my talks “Scaling Agile” and “Scaling Agility” (combined into one). Scaling Agility from Cory Foy

When the Single Responsibility Principle is taught among developers, one aspect – the responsibility – is harped on the most. But what counts as a responsibility of a class or a method? Is it the concepts it touches? The number of classes it uses? The number of methods it calls? While each of the above…

On July 16th I gave a talk for the Triangle DevOps group. Here’s the slides from the presentation. Thanks for having me out!

Julia is the ScrumMaster for Team Gumbo. They were recently formed as their organization’s first foray into the agile world. They were all given a two-day Certified ScrumMaster class, and are collocated. But Julia has noticed that after two months of working together, they don’t seem to be hitting their Sprint Commitments – and don’t…

REST seems to always be in the way. Am I doing it wrong? What's its value? Is there some perspective I don't have which makes it better? — Josh Cheek (@josh_cheek) May 5, 2014 A great thing about being a programmer today is the wide variety of libraries, packages, and patterns we have access to….

On Friday, I had the wonderful opportunity to present at TriAgile 2014. My talk on The Agile Mindset – Agility Across Your Organization got a lot of great feedback, and I wanted to share the slides here. The key takeaway would be: if we relentlessly and ruthlessly focus on removing the delays in our organization,…

One of the most important patterns to come from modern web development is the idea of Model-View-Controller – in effect, separating out our data logic from the view of said data, as well as the separation of how that data and view gets wired up. This works really well when you have a single team,…

One of the key approaches of good software development is building software iteratively and incrementally. Iterating over our process and software gives us a chance to reflect on how we are working, while building increments of functionality allows us to begin to deliver functionality and value (in the form of working software) early. This feedback…

Organizations are filled with decisions. Well-run organizations enable decisions to be made at any level – ideally at the level closest to the work being done. But sometimes it can be difficult to know if a decision is good or not. As a team, you can talk about the challenges, the benefits, and the goals,…