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 26th, 2011
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How many bugs do you have in your code?
If you follow Zero Bug Tolerance of course you’re not supposed to have any bugs to fix after the code…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 26th, 2011
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Software Estimation is not a Black Art
Construx Software is one of the few companies that take the problems of estimation in software development seriously. Earlier this…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 11th, 2011
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Developing and Testing in the Cloud
There’s a lot of hype around “the Cloud” and what it can do. One of the things that I am…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 2nd, 2011
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Failure Isolation and Recovery: Learning from High-Scale and Extreme-Scale Computing
While I have been building business-critical enterprise systems for a long time, I haven’t worked on high-scale cloud computing or…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJune 21st, 2011
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Lessons in Software Reliability
What does it take to build reliable and stable enterprise software? First, stop writing lousy code It’s unfortunate that few…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJune 20th, 2011
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Not doing Code Reviews? What’s your excuse?
All of us have known for a long time that code reviews find defects, and that reviews are cheaper and…
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How many bugs do you have in your code?

Software Estimation is not a Black Art

Developing and Testing in the Cloud

Failure Isolation and Recovery: Learning from High-Scale and Extreme-Scale Computing

Lessons in Software Reliability

Not doing Code Reviews? What’s your excuse?

Thank you!