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 BirdJune 9th, 2013
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Choosing between a Pen Test and a Secure Code Review
Secure Code Reviews (bringing someone in from outside of the team to review/audit the code for security vulnerabilities) and application…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJune 3rd, 2013
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Estimating Might Be Broken, But It’s Not Evil
Ron Jeffries’s essay Estimation is Evil talks about how absurd estimating can be on a software project, and the nightmare…
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Agile
Jim BirdMay 26th, 2013
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7 Agile Best Practices that You Don’t Need to Follow
There are many good ideas and practices in Agile development, ideas and practices that definitely work: breaking projects into Small…
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Software Development
Jim BirdMay 6th, 2013
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What does Code Ownership do to Code?
In my last post, I talked about Code Ownership models, and why you might want to choose one code ownership…
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Software Development
Jim BirdMay 1st, 2013
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Code Ownership – Who Should Own the Code?
A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be…
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Software Development
Jim BirdApril 22nd, 2013
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Architecture-Breaking Bugs – when a Dreamliner becomes a Nightmare
The history of computer systems is also the history of bugs, including epic, disastrous bugs that have caused millions of…
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Software Development
Jim BirdApril 11th, 2013
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Penetration Testing Shouldn’t be a Waste of Time
In a recent post on “Debunking Myths: Penetration Testing is a Waste of Time”, Rohit Sethi looks at some of…
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Software Development
Jim BirdApril 9th, 2013
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War Games, Pair Testing and Other Fun Ways to Find Bugs
I’ve already examined how important good testing is to the health of a project, a product and an organization. There’s…
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DevOps
Jim BirdApril 7th, 2013
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How do you measure Devops?
If you’re trying to convince yourself (or the team or management) that your operations program needs to be changed for…
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