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 BirdOctober 12th, 2012
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Bad Things Happen to Good Code
We need to understand what happens to code over time and why, and what a healthy, long-lived code base looks…
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Software Development
Jim BirdSeptember 20th, 2012
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Technical Debt – when do you have to pay it off?
There are 2 times to think about technical debt: When you are building a system and making trade-off decisions between…
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Software Development
Jim BirdSeptember 15th, 2012
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Can you get by without estimating? Should you try?
Estimating remains one of the hardest problems in software development. So hard in fact that more people lately are advocating…
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Software Development
Jim BirdSeptember 13th, 2012
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How to Cheat at Application Security
Developers need to know a lot in order to build secure applications. Some of this is good software engineering and…
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DevOps
Jim BirdSeptember 5th, 2012
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Devops and Maintenance go together like Apple Pie and Ice Cream
One of the things I like about devops is that it takes on important but neglected problems in the full…
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Agile
Jim BirdAugust 31st, 2012
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Contracting in Agile – You try it
One of the key principles in Agile development is “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation” Unfortunately, that means that if you’re…
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Software Development
Jim BirdAugust 27th, 2012
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What’s better – Big Fat Tests or Little Tests?
Like most startups, we built a lot of prototypes and wrote and threw out a lot of code as we…
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Agile
Jim BirdAugust 22nd, 2012
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Does the PMI-ACP set the bar high enough on Risk Management?
I’m trying to understand the PMI’s new certification for Agile Certified Practitioners, and what value the PMI brings to managing…
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Agile
Jim BirdAugust 19th, 2012
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What can you get out of Kanban?
I’ve spent the last year or so learning more about Kanban, how to use it in software development and IT…
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