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 BirdMarch 19th, 2013
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Yes Small Companies Can – and Should – Build Secure Software
‘For large software companies or major corporations such as banks or health care firms with large custom software bases, investing…
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Software Development
Jim BirdMarch 9th, 2013
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Peer reviews for security are a waste of time?
At this year’s RSA conference, one of the panel’s questioned whether software security is a waste of time. A panellist,…
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Software Development
Jim BirdMarch 7th, 2013
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Appsec at RSA 2013
This was my second time at the RSA conference on IT security. Like last year, I focused on the appsec…
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Software Development
Jim BirdFebruary 21st, 2013
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A Bug is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Some development teams, especially Agile teams, don’t bother tracking bugs. Instead of using a bug tracking system, when testers find…
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DevOps
Jim BirdFebruary 19th, 2013
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Releasing more often drives better Dev and better Ops
One of the most important decisions that we made as a company was to release less software, more often. After…
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Software Development
Jim BirdFebruary 11th, 2013
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Code and Code Reviews: What’s in a Name?
In a code review a developer needs to look at the code from two different perspectives: Correctness. Is the code…
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Software Development
Jim BirdFebruary 1st, 2013
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Appsec and Technical Debt
Technical debt is a fact of life for anyone working in software development: work that needs to be done to…
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Agile
Jim BirdJanuary 28th, 2013
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Design Doesn’t Emerge from Code
I know a lot of people who are transitioning to Agile or already following Agile development methods. Almost all of…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJanuary 21st, 2013
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Frankensystems, Half-Strangled Zombies and other Monsters
There are lots of ugly things that can happen to a system over time. This is what the arguments over…
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