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 BirdAugust 16th, 2012
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Fixing Bugs that can’t be Reproduced
There are bugs that can’t be reproduced, or at least not easily: intermittent and transient errors; bugs that disappear when…
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Software Development
Jim BirdAugust 15th, 2012
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Bug Fixing – to Estimate, or not to Estimate, that is the question
According to Steve McConnell in Code Complete (data from 1975-1992) most bugs don’t take long to fix. About 85% of…
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Software Development
Jim BirdAugust 8th, 2012
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Fixing Bugs – if you can’t reproduce them, you can’t fix them
‘Generally, if you can’t reproduce it, it’s almost impossible to fix’. Anonymous programmer, Practices of Software Maintenance, Janice Singer Fixing…
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Software Development
Jim BirdAugust 3rd, 2012
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Fixing Bugs – there’s no substitute for experience
We’ve all heard that the only way to get good at fixing bugs in through experience – the school of…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 31st, 2012
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Why are some bugs harder to fix than others?
There are a lot of different factors that impact how long it could take to find and fix a bug.…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 27th, 2012
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Fixing a bug is like catching a fish
Manager: So, how long will it take to fix this bug? Inexperienced Programmer: An hour maybe? Two tops? I’ll get…
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DevOps
Jim BirdJuly 24th, 2012
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It’s About Confidentiality and Integrity (not so much Availability)
Everyone knows the C-I-A triad for information security: security is about protecting the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of systems and…
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Agile
Jim BirdJuly 18th, 2012
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In Agile development planning, a security framework loses out
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn explains the different factors that go into prioritizing work on a software development…
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DevOps
Jim BirdJuly 16th, 2012
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Monitoring Sucks. But Monitoring as Testing Sucks a Lot More
At Devopsdays I listened to a lot of smart people saying smart things. And to some people saying things that…
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