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At one time or another just about every maker here at Atomic Object takes on the role of Team Leader. Usually it is one Atom leading a team of one or more other Atoms, other times one or two of us are working with a team of developers from our client’s company. In either case…
You may have heard that Atomic Object is opening its first new office in Detroit. As you can imagine, this is making for an exciting and busy (busier!) spring coming up. Personally, it’s even more exciting for me as I plan to move to Detroit to help start up the new office. I grew up…
What do the following enterprises have in common: Automobile manufacturing Banking Garbage collection Hardware sales Video rentals Give up? Each of them, at one time, were nascent industries populated chiefly by small, local, mom & pop style businesses. Also in common: they are all now dominated by a small handful of mega corporations[1]. Is it…
Here at Atomic Object we have a strong culture of sharing the benefits of our success with each other – in many ways far more generously than is common in our industry. Of course, coupled to these rewards is an equally emphasized sense of responsibilities – not the least of these is our commitment to…
Almost one year ago Atomic Object put together a new group dedicated to embedded development and Atomic Embedded was born. The year has gone by so quickly, and the pace of events within the embedded group has kept up as well. We started the year with a group size of three (Greg, Mike, and me)….
I was invited to give a presentation at the 1DevDay conference in Detroit that was held a couple of weeks ago at the Compuware offices in Downtown Detroit. My presentation on burn down charts seemed well received, with an engaged audience, good material, and lots of interesting questions. I was quite happy with the response….
The 1DevDay Detroit Conference is coming up soon and promises to be an exciting, educational, and fun day of learning about, sharing, and exploring software and software product development techniques. This year the event is being hosted on Saturday, November 5th by Compuware Corporation at their headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
Ten years is a long time. You can go from newlywed to a family of five, including boys in fourth and second grade. That’s pretty good considering that the average marriage in the US lasts only eight years. You can eat up the first half of your “middle age”, but still console yourself with the…
A couple of weeks ago I made it over to the Quicken Loans offices in Detroit for the third (ever) meeting of the DetroitRuby group. Hosted by Mike Bobiney (Quicken Loans) and Chris Hallenday (Tukaiz), the featured speaker for the evening was Carl Wright – the President and Founder of Service Level Corporation. His talk…
Carl is the president and co-founder of Atomic Object