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Detroit: The Land of New Opportunity

By Bruce Watson | Published: April 18, 2012

You can feel it. It is real. Something bigger than all of us is happening. Do any research and immediately you learn about Detroit’s rapid decline of population and business. Statistics on crime and corruption paint an even worse picture. Drive two blocks and you go from stunning high-rise buildings and large iconic art to...

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Keeping an Eye on Process

By Greg Williams | Published: April 11, 2012

Too often, the HOW of development gets overlooked. In a rush to beat out the competition, corporations are harshly driven by fast approaching deadlines due to accelerated time-to-market for new products. Unfortunately, getting new products out the door often leads to increasing mountains of technical debt. Though development teams occasionally administer retrospectives to assess performance,…

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Minimal Viable Product or Mediocre Value Prop?

By Mary O'Neill | Published: April 10, 2012

Scott Anthony highlights the importance of building a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) compelling enough to steer clear of becoming a mediocre value proposition: Sometimes, though, a Minimal Viable Product turns into a Mediocre Value Proposition. A company might introduce a product in the marketplace. A few customers find it interesting (you can always find a…

Also posted in Business of Software, Reviews, Startups, Uncategorized | Tagged customer development, customers, lean startup, minimal viable product | 1 Comment

Cooper’s UX Bootcamp Takeaways

By Kedron Rhodes | Published: April 9, 2012

A team of atoms recently attended a Cooper UX Bootcamp in Columbus, Ohio. The bootcamp was designed to take participants on a 4 day journey through the human centered design process. The design challenge revolved around developing a mobile app that would increase engagement, retention and participation in the young professionals association of the Columbus…

Also posted in Culture, Process & Practices, Tools, User Experience | Tagged conference, user experience, UX, workshop | 2 Comments

Do what you love

By Shawn Anderson | Published: April 8, 2012

If you won the lottery tomorrow and no longer had a single bill to pay, would you keep your day job? If the answer is yes, you are doing what you love. I recently had some time off to enjoy an addition to my family. This also gave me time for reflection.

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BASIC: Cross-platform, Cross-generational

By Cole Jackowski | Published: April 5, 2012

I first delved into programming (about five months ago) as a hobby with miSoft Basic!, an iOS app for writing and running programs in the beginner-friendly BASIC language. BASIC’s easy to learn syntax and universal-access design philosophy have made it many programmers’ first language, but my generation of BASIC hobbyists have the unique experience of being…

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Simple Remote Pairing with wemux

By Mike English | Published: April 4, 2012

Background Atomic Object is opening an office in Detroit. As part of the preparation for this new venture, I have been looking at ways to simplify remote pairing. I was happy to find out about a new project called wemux. Wemux is a script that simplifies the management of shared tmux sessions.

Also posted in Pairing, Tools, Unix, Linux, and Bash | Tagged bash, pairing, remote pairing, ssh, tmux, wemux | 5 Comments

Motor City Bound!

By Scott Miller | Published: March 19, 2012

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…

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Help us find great people for our new Detroit office, we’ll say thanks with an iPad

By Michael Marsiglia | Published: March 15, 2012

Carl recently announced Atomic Object’s Detroit expansion. We need your help to make our expansion a success. Please help us find talented, hardworking and happy software developers, and application designers. We’ll say thanks with a shiny, new iPad. To qualify, simply have the applicant identify you as the referrer when submitting his or her application….

Also posted in Events | Tagged detroit, hiring | 1 Comment

Atomic Object is Expanding to Detroit

By Carl Erickson | Published: March 10, 2012

Atomic Object is opening a second office. We’ve selected Detroit as the location for our first expansion. AO Detroit, or AOD as we refer to it, is expected to grow to be a peer to the Grand Rapids office. To lead AOD, we’ve hired a managing partner with years of experience in corporate IT, product…

Also posted in News | Tagged business, detroit, expansion | 20 Comments