Jim Bird

Jim is an experienced CTO, software development manager and project manager, who has worked on high-performance, high-reliability mission-critical systems for many years, as well as building software development tools. His current interests include scaling Lean and Agile software development methodologies, software security and software assurance.

Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 21st, 2016
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Why you Should Attack Your Systems – Before “They” Do
You can’t hack and patch your way to a secure system. You will never be able to find all of…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJune 20th, 2016
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Dev-Sec.io Automated Hardening Framework
Automated configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef and Puppet are changing the way that organizations provision and manage their IT…
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DevOps
Jim BirdApril 20th, 2016
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DevOpsDays: Empathy, Scaling, Docker, Dependencies and Secrets
Last week I attended DevOpsDays 2016 in Vancouver. I was impressed to see how strong the DevOps community has grown…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 9th, 2015
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Don’t Blame Bad Software on Developers – Blame it on their Managers
There’s a lot of bad software out there. Unreliable, insecure, unsafe and unusable. It’s become so bad that some people…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJune 26th, 2015
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Top 10 Lists for Designing and Writing Secure and Safe Software
If you care about writing secure code, should know all about these Top 10 lists: OWASP Top 10 The OWASP…
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DevOps
Jim BirdJune 22nd, 2015
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Does DevOps Reduce Technical Debt – or Make it Worse?
DevOps can help reduce technical debt in some fundamental ways. Continuous Delivery/Deployment First, building a Continuous Delivery/Deployment pipeline, automating the…
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DevOps
Jim BirdJune 10th, 2015
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Software Architecture in DevOps
A new book by Len Bass, Ingo Weber and Liming Zhu “DevOps: A Software Architect’s Perspective”, part of the SEI…
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DevOps
Jim BirdMay 11th, 2015
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DevOps is Killing Maintenance. Let’s Celebrate.
DevOps probably isn’t killing developers. But it is changing how people think about development – from running projects to a…
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DevOps
Jim BirdMay 2nd, 2015
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Can DevOps(Sec) make Software more Secure?
There was a lot of talk at RSA this year about DevOps and security: DevOpsSec or DevSecOps or Rugged DevOps…
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