Micah Alles on Atomic Spin

Why Estimate Bugs and Chores in Your Backlog?

Points don't represent value; they represent cost. When a team estimates a backlog item, they are reasoning about its cost, its time to implement.

Managing Your Team

Transparent Project Management with Burn Up Charts

A burn up chart focuses on the future while transparently recording everything that happened from the start of the project until now.

Project & Team Management

Managing Products, not Just Projects

All software projects are rife with risks. The Product Manager's job is to see the big picture, manage risks, and help the team make smarter decisions.

Personal Optimization

On Writing Technical Content

Here's what I've learned about managing time when writing technical content — categorize tasks, and figure out your best setting and work flow for each.

Project & Team Management

Prioritizing Refinements – Choose Wisely

Software features are prioritized rigorously. We should give just as much attention to prioritizing the refinements a dev team decides to tackle.

Ruby

Simple Passive Code Generation

Code generation isn't beyond any developer capable of writing the simplest script.

UX/Design Practices

Where Is the Offline View Pattern?

Many mobile apps try to bridge a connected and offline experience. This inevitably leads devs to common practices when dealing with data and views.

Development Practices

Pragmatic Pairing

At Atomic, we pair pragmatically—not dogmatically. While all work could benefit from having another set of eyes, not all work needs that constant attention.

Evolving the Industry

A Modern Web Development Syllabus

A list of resources, books, and tutorials to bring a computer scientist up to speed with the latest tools and practices used in modern web development.

Development Practices

How Do You Roll Your Dough?

A common activity during software development is deciding when and how to functionally decompose your code. This post covers when and how we break down or refactor larger functions

DevOps & System Admin.

Remote mysqldump without Temp Files

A description of using pipes with ssh in a way that allows the results of mysqldump on a remote machine to be stored locally without creating a temporary file.

Web Apps

jquery.expand Examples

A list of examples using jquery.expand's many directives.

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