Name:Joseph (Joe) Yoder

Bio:

Joseph (Joe) Yoder is a research collaborator at IME/USP and a founder and principal of the Refactory, a company focused on software architecture, design, implementation, consulting, and mentoring on all facets of software development. Joe is an author of many articles, papers, and books, and is well-known for the Big Ball of Mud pattern, which illuminates many fallacies in software architecture.

Joe is a coauthor of Cloud Application Architecture Patterns—Designing, Building, and Modernizing for the Cloud by O’Reilly, which has 75 patterns of proven practices to design and build applications to run well in the cloud. He is also a co-author of A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game (Pragmatic Bookshelf), which includes 94 patterns and 2 pattern languages about getting the most out of Scrum. Joe received the New Directions award at the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI’s) conference on Software Architecture (SATURN), and the ACM recognized Joe as a Distinguished Member in the category of “Outstanding Engineering Contributions to Computing”. Joe is a “Fellow” of the Hillside Group, a group dedicated to improving the quality of software development.

Country:United States

Affiliation:The Refactory, Inc.

Research interests:Agile, Adaptive Systems, Meta-Architectures, Patterns, Refactoring, Frameworks, Reuse, Architecture