Ryan Abel on Atomic Spin

Software Project Estimates – When, Why, and How?

Three excellent times to estimate, why each is valuable for estimation (or re-estimation), and how you can come up with an estimate.

Planning Your Project

A Strategy for Release Planning

Dumping new software on your employees breeds resentment, poor adoption rates, and even an increase in the effort it takes to get the same work done.

Personal Optimization

My Project/Product Management Toolkit

After my recent shift into project/product management, I realized my existing toolkit was obsolete. I no longer needed Docker, Git, or Stack Overflow.

Project & Team Management

What Makes a Good Scrum Master?

A Scrum Master wears many hats within an organization: project manager, account manager, and product manager. But what does it take to succeed as a Scrum Master?

Project & Team Management

Bring Focus to Your Check-Ins with a Six-Step Meeting Guide

The Meeting Guide has been a great tool for our big team, helping us focus on the right things, keep accountable, and get work through the process.

Project & Team Management

The User Story Pipeline: A Visual To Guide the Agile Process

On complex Agile projects, defining and refining user stories takes is a lot of work. The user story pipeline helps you visualize this process.

Growing as Makers

Three Ways Planning a Conference Helped Me Grow Professionally

I never thought when I volunteered to help organize the conference, I would get so many professional development opportunities out of it.

News & Events

“Battle of the Brackets” Supports Kids Sports – and it’s Fun!

Battle of the Brackets is a March Madness event supporting GR8 Sports, Great Kids — a program to help GRPS kids pay to play school sports.

Project & Team Management

Why Your Big-Team Software Project Needs a Utility Player

Teams get stuck all the time, for a variety of reasons. The utility player is responsible for jumping in to get the rest of the team over the hurdle.

Planning Your Project

Is Your New Feature Worth It?

Don't let your excitement overtake and derail your great product. Refine it, and add new features, but only when they make sense.

Developer Tools

Store Batch Import Metadata to Save Yourself Time Later

Batch imports are tricky, and debugging them can be difficult if you don't store infor about the import. Save yourself a headache by building import auditing into your next batch i

Project & Team Management

Three Ways to Maintain Excellent Customer Experience During a Support Phase

A client in a support phase isn't your top priority – but they still need your care and attention. Here are 3 ways to give them a great experience.

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