Micah Alles on Atomic Spin

Project Team Roles and Responsibilities at Atomic Object

Each Atomic team role has different responsibilities, but every person engages in every part of the project. That’s why we can all see the big picture.

Project & Team Management

How to Estimate Big, Scary User Stories

In every backlog I've estimated, I encounter the story that knows no bound. The Un-estimatable Story. Anxiety wells within me at the drawn out conversation about to begin as we get

Planning Your Project

Working with Atomic After Our Initial Engagement – Three Options

So, your product development engagement with Atomic Object is nearing an end. You now have three distinct options for how could continue working with us.

Project & Team Management

How to Run a Sprint Planning Meeting for a Happy, Productive Team

When done right, the Sprint Planning Meeting serves as a well tuned-constraint, keeping the team sustainably delivering regular, measurable progress.

Growing as Makers

Collaborating? Frame Your Ideas with Curious Humility

It takes bravery to admit to a peer that you don't know something—especially in a way that works toward alignment rather than competition.

Project & Team Management

How to Estimate an Agile/Scrum Story Backlog with Points

A step-by-step overview of the tools and processes you need to do a points estimate of a project backlog the Agile/Scrum way.

Project & Team Management

Three Goals for Effective Backlog Management

If you can achieve these, your team will be well situated to reliably and predictably deliver their best product.

Project & Team Management

How to Talk about Risk in Software Development

If you describe a risk as a future problem, with impact and cause, it helps inform pre-emptive tactics and helps to avoid a "sky is falling" scenario.

Web Apps

How to Choose a Web Tech Stack

Relative to the duration of a project, the learnability cost of a tech stack is constant, but the cost for lack of automation & applicability only grows.

Managing Your Team

The Atomic Agile Process

A template for Atomic Object’s Agile process—designed to be a starting point for our maker teams as they come together to tackle a new project.

Project & Team Management

Why Team-Focused Backlogs Are More Effective

Developers talented at switching between tech environments and quickly ramping into new ones allows us to realize the benefits of team-focused backlogs.

Development Practices

Designing a Scalable Deployment Pipeline

Designing an effective and scalable deployment pipeline is the top priority of a product engineering team—even over choosing a language or tech stack.

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