Project & Team Management Two Symptoms Your Team Isn’t Agile As agile practices become common, I notice teams drifting further from the original intent. See if your team is falling victim to this trend.
News & Events 3 Takeaways from Business of Software 2023 Business of Software (BoS) in Raleigh is one of the best conferences I’ve attended. Here are 3 takeaways from my first BoS experience.
The Software Life Choosing Atomic’s Fourth Office: A Peek Behind The Curtain After a final pass through the cities and some further discussions, we landed on creating our fourth office: Atomic Raleigh-Durham.
Culture How My Atomic Coworkers Supported Me Through Tragedy Atomic employees recently put their company values into practice by supporting a coworker — me — through tragedy.
Managing Your Team Keep Your Team’s Feedback Flowing With 5-15s Any form of feedback requires trust to succeed. The 5-15 process only works if you actually address the employee feedback.
The Software Life Understanding Software Jargon, Part 3: Design Terms Today, we'll discuss design terms such as "design system," a method that uses elements in a style guide to build the components of a system.
The Software Life Understanding Software Jargon, Part 2: Process Terms In the second part of this three-part series, I'll cover some common process terms you'll hear working on your first custom software product.
The Software Life Understanding Software Jargon, Part 1: Development Terms In this series, I'll take a stab at creating a glossary of terms for people new to custom software and software jargon.
Growing as Makers What Makes Someone Fun to Work With? A person who is fun to work with is often praising team members for their dedication and work ethic, not reflecting on their own successes.
Project & Team Management Solve Problems By Making Work More Visible Sometimes, it's hard to see progress on a software project. Here are three problems I’ve been able to solve by making work more visible.
Effective communication 3 Ways to Build Goodwill With Your Software Client It’s important for your software team to build goodwill when you’re facing tough conversations around scope, budget, or rotating team members.
Planning Your Project The Most Successful Software Teams Have Empowered Product Owners There are plenty of reasons products fail. Don’t let yours be that you didn’t empower your product owner to do everything they could to deliver success.
