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.

Agile
Jim BirdJanuary 13th, 2013
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Hardening Sprints. What are they? Do you need them?
For anyone who is developing software using Scrum, XP or another incremental development approach, the idea of a “hardening sprint”…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJanuary 7th, 2013
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Classic Mistakes in Software Development and Maintenance
…the only difference between experienced and inexperienced developers is that the experienced ones realize when they’re making mistakes. Jeff Atwood,…
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Software Development
Jim BirdDecember 21st, 2012
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Don’t take the Technical Debt Metaphor too far
Because “technical debt” has the word “debt” in it, many people have decided that it makes sense to think and…
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Software Development
Jim BirdDecember 11th, 2012
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Rule of 30 – When is a method, class or subsystem too big?
A question that constantly comes up from people that care about writing good code, is: what’s the right size for…
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Agile
Jim BirdNovember 29th, 2012
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Why Scrum Won
In the 1990s and early 2000s a number of different lightweight ‘agile’ development methods sprung up. Today a few shops…
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Agile
Jim BirdNovember 21st, 2012
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Predictability – Making Promises you can Keep
Speed – being first to market, rapid innovation and conducting fast cheap experiments – is critically important to startups and…
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DevOps
Jim BirdNovember 12th, 2012
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Health Checks, Run-time Asserts and Monkey Armies
After going live, we started building health checks into the system – run-time checks on operational dependencies and status to…
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Software Development
Jim BirdOctober 23rd, 2012
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You can’t Refactor your way out of every Problem
Refactoring is a disciplined way to clarify, retain or restore the design of a system as you make changes, and…
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Software Development
Jim BirdOctober 19th, 2012
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Should you care about Conway’s Law?
Conway’s Law says that “organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which…
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