Building Real Software

Developing and Maintaining Secure and Reliable Software in the Real World

Friday, May 8, 2009

OWASP SAMM Organizational Assessment

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I recently completed a lightweight organizational assessment of our software security assurance program, using the OWASP SAMM assessment wo...
Sunday, May 3, 2009

Everything I needed to know about Maintenance...

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So much has been written about software development: there are good books and blogs on software engineering, agile methods, design patterns,...
Friday, April 17, 2009

OpenSAMM shows a way

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We have done a lot of work over the past 3 years to develop an effective software security program. We began working with Cigital’s Touchpoi...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Making Things Happen

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I am reading an excellent book on project management called “Making Things Happen” by Scott Berkun , who used to run major projects at Micr...
Monday, March 23, 2009

What's Wrong with Sucking Less?

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At the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto, David Douglas & Robin Dymond discussed their concerns that the majority of companies who adopt...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Risk Management

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Successfully building real software systems is a high-risk undertaking. To manage risk, you need to explicitly identify and face risks; and ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Construx SW Development Executive Summit

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I have started working again with Construx Software , helping us improve our software engineering practices. I was of course familiar with S...
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Jim Bird
I am an experienced software development manager, project manager and CTO focused on hard problems in software development, software quality and security. For the last 20 years I have managed teams building and operating high-performance financial platforms. My special interest is how small teams can be most effective in building real software: high-quality, secure systems at the extreme limits of reliability, performance, and adaptability. Software that has to work, that is built right, and built to last. I use this blog to explore ideas and problems in software development that are important to me. To reflect and to find new answers.
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