Ryan Abel on Atomic Spin

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.

Planning Your Project

Prioritize Your (or Your Client’s) Projects Using Relative Weighting

This exercise forces key stakeholders to discuss relative value and effort of each initiative. And it gives them information to make an informed decision.

Project & Team Management

When Is a Story Done? Three Criteria to Decide

Done is straightforward, clear-cut. It's absolute. So, when we talk about user stories being done, why is it so difficult to agree on a definition?

Project & Team Management

Three Ways to Improve Your Sprint Demo

It took a lot of hard work to complete this feature, and you should be proud, so don't come into the sprint demo nervous and unprepared.

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