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 BirdSeptember 18th, 2013
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The Real Cost of Change in Software Development
There are two widely opposed (and often misunderstood) positions on how expensive it can be to change or fix software…
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DevOps
Jim BirdSeptember 9th, 2013
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This is how Facebook Develops and Deploys Software. Should you care?
A recently published academic paper by Prof. Dror Feitelson at Hebrew University, Eitan Frachtenberg a research scientist at Facebook, and…
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Agile
Jim BirdAugust 28th, 2013
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Getting Application Security Vulnerabilities Fixed
It’s a lot harder to fix application security vulnerabilities than it should be. In their May 2013 security report, WhiteHat…
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Agile
Jim BirdAugust 19th, 2013
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Looking for Answers at Agile 2013
I went to Agile 2013 last week in Nashville to look for answers on how Agile development ideas and practices…
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DevOps
Jim BirdAugust 1st, 2013
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Maintaining Software Sucks – and what we can do about it
If you ask most developers, they will tell you that working in maintenance sucks. Understanding and fixing somebody else’s lousy…
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Agile
Jim BirdJuly 20th, 2013
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Agile Development leads to Alzheimer’s
Iterative development and design helps you to reach your way towards understanding what the customer really needs, to try out…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJuly 1st, 2013
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Design Patterns after Design is Done
Design Patterns are a useful tool when you are designing a system, an effective shorthand for communicating and sharing design…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJune 24th, 2013
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What is Important in Secure Software Design?
There are many basic architectural and design mistakes that can compromise the security of a system: Missing something important in…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJune 18th, 2013
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Automated Tests as Documentation
One of the arguments for writing automated tests is that tests can act as useful documentation for a system. But…
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