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.

DevOps
Jim BirdJuly 9th, 2012
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Does Devops have a Culture Problem?
At the Devopsdays conference in Mountain View, Spike Morelli led an Open Space discussion on the importance of culture. He…
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Agile
Jim BirdJune 25th, 2012
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Sooner or Later: Deliver Early or Minimize Waste
There’s an obvious but important tension in Lean/Agile development around when to make decisions. Between the fundamental Agile position that…
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Agile
Jim BirdJune 22nd, 2012
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Agile Estimating: Story Points and Decay
I’m re-reading Mike Cohn’s Agile Estimating and Planning. It’s the best book I’ve found on this and worth reading, even…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJune 18th, 2012
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Where do Security Requirements come from?
One of the problems in building a secure application is that it’s not always clear what the security requirements are…
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Agile
Jim BirdJune 11th, 2012
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Are Agile plans Better because they are Feature-Based?
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn quotes Jim Highsmith on why Agile projects are better: “One of the things…
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Agile
Jim BirdMay 24th, 2012
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The pursuit of protection: How much testing is “enough”?
I’m definitely not a testing expert. I’m a manager who wants to know when the software that we are building…
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Software Development
Jim BirdMay 21st, 2012
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Software Development Metrics that Matter
As an industry we do a surprisingly poor job of measuring the work that we do and how well we…
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Software Development
Jim BirdMay 11th, 2012
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Building security into a development team
Getting application developers to understand and take responsibility for software security is difficult. Bootstrapping an Appsec program requires that you…
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Software Development
Jim BirdMay 4th, 2012
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Application Security at Scale
This week’s SANS AppSec conference in Las Vegas took on Application Security at Scale: how can we scale application security…
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