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 BirdDecember 12th, 2014
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If you could only do one thing to make better software, what would it be?
Good technical practices are what we have to do to make good software – this is the engineering part of…
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Agile
Jim BirdNovember 21st, 2014
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Different Ways of Scaling Agile
At this year’s Construx Software Executive Summit one of the problems that we explored was how to scale software development,…
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Software Development
Jim BirdNovember 6th, 2014
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Don’t Waste Time Writing Perfect Code
A system can last for 5 or 10 or even 20 or more years. But the life of specific lines…
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Software Development
Jim BirdSeptember 18th, 2014
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Can Static Analysis replace Code Reviews?
In my last post, I explained how to do code reviews properly. I recommended taking advantage of static analysis tools…
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Software Development
Jim BirdAugust 28th, 2014
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Don’t waste time on Code Reviews
Less than half of development teams do code reviews and the other half are probably not getting as much out…
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Software Development
Jim BirdAugust 9th, 2014
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Feature Toggles are one of the worst kinds of Technical Debt
Feature flags or config flags aka feature toggles aka flippers are an important part of Devops practices like dark launching…
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DevOps
Jim BirdJuly 30th, 2014
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Devops isn’t killing developers – but it is killing development and developer productivity
Devops isn’t killing developers – at least not any developers that I know. But Devops is killing development, or the…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 21st, 2014
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Trust instead of Threats
According to Dr. Gary McGraw’s ground breaking work on software security, up to half of security mistakes are made in…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 11th, 2014
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10 things you can do to as a developer to make your app secure: #10 Design Security In
There’s more to secure design and architecture besides properly implementing Authentication, Access Control and Logging strategies, and choosing (and properly…
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