The Refactory
Joseph (Joe) Yoder (agilist, computer scientist, speaker, and pattern author) is the founder and principal of The Refactory (www.refactory.com), a company focused on software architecture, design, implementation, consulting, and mentoring on all facets of software development. Joe is also the president of The Hillside Group, a non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of life of everyone who uses, builds, and encounters software systems.
Joe is well-known as an author of the Big Ball of Mud pattern, illuminating fallacies in software architecture. Joe teaches and mentors developers on agile and lean practices, architecture, flexible systems, clean design, patterns, refactoring, technical debt, testing, and being agile about system qualities. Joe has presented many tutorials and talks, arranged workshops, given keynotes, and help organized leading international agile and technical conferences.
Joe is a co-author of “A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game” and also won the New Directions award with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock at the Software Engineering Institutes (SEI) Software Architecture conference (SATURN), which is given to the presentation that best describes innovative new approaches and thought leadership in the application of architecture-centric practices; his winning presentation was called “QA to AQ: Shifting from Quality Assurance to Agile Quality.”
