Tom is a 20 year veteran of the Information Technology industry. He has spent the past 10 years managing, designing and implementing software products and applications using agile software development methods. Prior to Coveros, Tom held a variety of CTO and architect positions at software development companies. Tom is a member of the northern Virginia BEA users group and the northern Virginia Java users group. Tom holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from George Mason University.
By Lisa Morgan Reposted from SD Times Being agile is more critical than ever as businesses compete for customers. The true level of agility can vary greatly from company to company, team to team, department to department and person to person. As organizations scale agile out from pilots and small groups to critical projects involving […]
Presented at Agile DC 2012, Tom Steihm discussed how to make secure applications using Agile Methods. Secure Agile – How to make secure applications using Agile Methods
At The Agile Development Conference West in 2012, Tom Stiehm presented “Signs Your Agile Adoption is Off Track (And How To Fix It).” Adopting agile is often a difficult proposition with many variables and sometimes uneven results. Recognizing when your adoption isn’t working well and taking pro-active actions to put it back on track are […]
Tom Stiehm presented this presentation at the 2011 Better Software East Conference. Tom addresses how to build security into your applications using Agile best practices. Tom discusses practical implementation methods, including real-world examples, necessary architecture and tooling, and specific coding practices your application development teams need to implement to be successful. Better Software East
Daily stand up meetings, or huddles as Scrum calls them, are a core Agile practice that promotes communication and project visibility. They are an invaluable tool for identifying but not solving problems. So what do you do when a part of your team is in another city or continent? You iHuddle. Er, ah, what is […]
I was recently reminiscing with a friend regarding some of the hairier projects we had worked on together. One in particular stood out. It was for a financial services company. While the project itself had no specific security requirements, the company decided toward the end of the project that it needed to have security […]
Agile adoption isn’t an all or nothing proposition, as I have heard it described. At one point in my Agile adoption I wouldn’t have even believed it. If I went go into a new client that said they were an Agile shop and they didn’t practice all of the XP practices, I would feel they […]
I have worked on teams that were successful just creating an continuous integration server that ran unit tests. Unit testing is the corner stone of testing in software development. If you units function correctly there is a higher probability that the application as a whole functions correctly. If you can write unit tests that cover […]
This article describes Agile Feedback loops that help detect software and process issues that need to change, quickly identify and implement software changes that keep the cost of change to a minimum, and help projects stay on course and deliver value with each release. Tryst with Uncertainity 2009
