(If you’d like to see the video, click here) Earlier this year I was invited to be a speaker at SCNA 2012. At the time I was thinking a lot about quality and about the learning and growth process of developers. Back in March I helped launch the Florida arm of 8th Light, and now…
Tag: Software Craftsmanship
Simple Design with Design Patterns
Over the past couple of months I’ve been working with several clients struggling with doing incremental architecture and design. As an organization moves away from a typical waterfall method – with lots of time for analysis and design – they have to find ways to still build scalable, sustainable systems in an incremental fashion. I…
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.
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…
Growing and Fostering Craftsmanship
Yesterday at the XP2010 conference in Trondheim, Norway I gave a talk on Growing and Fostering Software Craftsmanship. The session was recorded by the conference, but I also recorded using my Flip camera. I put my video online, as well as the slides, and I’m hoping to also be able to post the conference video…
The Proverbial Train Has Left the Station.
Ron Jeffries has up a post titled Opportunity to Advance the Craft about the Certified Scrum Developer program. He says: Here’s the good news: the camel has his nose well inside the tent. Here are some reasons why: and Whether we like it or not, the words ‘certified’ and ‘developer’ are going to be adjacent…
Analyzing Our Words
Last night I was writing a message to the Scrum Development list when I saw something that struck me. The bottom of my screen showed me that I had received 33,227 messages since I first subscribed to it. I wondered, what have we said since March 27th, 2006 when I first joined? I then also…
They Could Have Been Contenders
There’s been a lot of talk in the agile community recently around Software Development Practices, or Engineering Practices, being in Scrum. Scrum, if you’ll remember, is brought up around the 3/3/3 – 3 Roles (ScrumMaster, Product Owner and “Otherâ€), 3 Artifacts (Burndown, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog) and 3 Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review)….
Selling Software Craftsmanship in the Enterprise Video Now Available
Earlier this year I gave two talks on Selling Software Craftsmanship in the Enterprise – one at the Software Craftsmanship North America conference, and one at Tampa BarCamp. The video from my presentation at Tampa BarCamp is now available. Enjoy! Selling Software Craftsmanship in the Enterprise from Cory Foy on Vimeo.
DotNet Koans
For quite a while now, if you want to learn Ruby, you have the Pickaxe book, Why’s guide, and the fabulous Edgecase Ruby Koans on GitHub. The Koans are especially interesting because all you really need to do is setup a working environment and go. It tells you what you need to do next, by…