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 BirdDecember 19th, 2013
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Stop Telling Stories
There are beautiful, simple ideas in today’s Agile development methods that work really well. And some that don’t. Like defining…
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Agile
Jim BirdDecember 10th, 2013
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Appsec’s Agile Problem
Agile development has a serious Appsec problem. Most Agile development teams suck at building secure software. But one of the…
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Software Development
Jim BirdNovember 20th, 2013
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Applying the 80:20 Rule in Software Development
Managers don’t want to think harder than they have to. They like simple rules of thumb, quick and straightforward ways…
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Agile
Jim BirdNovember 6th, 2013
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Adding Appsec to Agile: Security Stories, Evil User Stories and Abuse(r) Stories
Because Agile development teams work from a backlog of stories, one way to inject application security into software development is…
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DevOps
Jim BirdOctober 29th, 2013
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Making Devops work outside of Webops
I’ve spent the last 3 years or so learning more about devops. I went to Velocity and Devopsdays and a…
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Software Development
Jim BirdOctober 21st, 2013
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Programming: Thinking or Typing, Thinking and Typing
“If you don’t think carefully, you might think that programming is just typing statements in a programming language.” Ward Cunningham,…
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Software Development
Jim BirdOctober 14th, 2013
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Don’t You Know that Support is the Most Important Part of a Developer’s Job?
Agile development – because you are building working software faster and delivering it incrementally – forces development teams to face…
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Agile
Jim BirdOctober 9th, 2013
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Don’t let Somebody Else’s Technical Debt take you Under
There’s a lot written about technical debt: what technical debt is and the different kinds of technical debt, how to…
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Software Development
Jim BirdSeptember 24th, 2013
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Code Reviews Change Over Time
We’ve been doing code reviews for about 4 years now. Getting Started with Code Reviews From the start, developers would…
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