Curtis Cooley
Agile Coach & Trainer
As a trainer, coach and developer for Industrial Logic, Curtis is committed to finding and sharing safer, better and more effective ways to build software. As a coach and trainer of XP/Agile teams, his passion for building better software is contagious. Curtis teaches pair programming, TDD and refactoring to software teams by working with them on their project – the teaching and doing approach, which he has found to be the best way to teach and apply software techniques, strategies and methodologies.
Curtis is a huge fan and proponent of TDD and Refactoring, and endeavors to keep code clean, readable and maintainable. He loves teaching others how to be Agile and Lean, and to write code pairing with other professionals at Industrial Logic on eLearning Albums. And he is very passionate about protecting the meaning of Agile from the watered-down “certificate” it’s becoming.
Curtis holds a degree in computer science from Eastern Washington University. He believes software is better built with a core group of self-organizing, dedicated team. Give him a team of 5-10 developers, he is certain he can tackle any size project for any size company to the delight of customers. Curtis is currently exploring, defining and living anzeneering at Industrial Logic - how safety can be built into any project, team or company.
He lives with his family in the heart of the beautiful Inland Northwest – Spokane, Washington, where they enjoy skiing in the winter and camping in the summer. He enjoys studying and contributing to the Agile community, even beyond work hours, and learns something new everyday.