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 23rd, 2012
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Agile Before there was Agile: Egoless Programming and Step-by-Step
Two key ideas underlying modern Agile development practices. First, that work can be done more effectively by Whole Teams in…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJanuary 18th, 2012
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Static Analysis isn’t Development Testing
I constantly get emails from Static Analysis vendors telling me why I need to buy their technology. Recently I’ve been…
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Software Development
Jim BirdDecember 21st, 2011
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2011: The State of Software Security and Quality
It’s the end of the year. Time to look back on what you’ve done, what you’ve learned, your successes and…
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DevOps
Jim BirdDecember 8th, 2011
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Devops has made Release and Deployment Cool
Back 10 years or so when Extreme Programming came out, it began to change the way that programmers thought about…
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Agile
Jim BirdNovember 30th, 2011
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Iterationless Development – the latest New New Thing
Thanks to the Lean Startup movement, Iterationless Development and Continuous Deployment have become the New New Thing in software development…
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Software Development
Jim BirdNovember 16th, 2011
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Diminishing Returns in software development and maintenance
Everyone knows from reading The Mythical Man Month that as you add more people to a software development project you…
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Agile
Jim BirdOctober 20th, 2011
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You can’t be Agile in Maintenance? (Part 2)
This article continues from You can’t be Agile in Maintenance? (Part 1) Coding Guidelines – follow the rules Getting the…
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Agile
Jim BirdOctober 20th, 2011
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You can’t be Agile in Maintenance? (Part 1)
I’ve been going over a couple of posts by Steve Kilner that question whether Agile methods can be used effectively…
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Agile
Jim BirdSeptember 9th, 2011
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Standups – take them or leave them
We left ‘em. Standup meetings are a core practice in Agile methods like Scrum and XP. Each day the team…
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