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5 Tips for Success When Joining a New Development Team

Success isn't just what you know – it's how well you work with others. Use your skills more effectively to build great software and relationships.

Development Practices

The Perspective of Great Developers

The perspective of a great developer helps them provide more value than average developers when things go wrong with third-party code.

Business Practices

Organizational Departments Aren’t Aligned with Innovation

It's not their fault, but your talented departements are inclined to suffocate your innovative efforts.

Development Practices

Designers Are More Valuable than Programmers

Insights as to how developers practice design and an assertion of the diminishing value of the "coder" mindset.

UX/Design Practices

Inexpensive UX Display Boards: Cheap Tools & Good Process

You can build a UX display board inexpensively with foam core boards and stands to keep UX design artifacts visible and help guide the team.

Project & Team Management

Managing Agile, Poly-skilled Teams with Intermediate Milestones

Managing agile, poly-skilled teams with intermediate milestones allows for better scope management and collaboration.

Planning Your Project

Fixed-Budget, Fixed-Scope, High-Quality Custom Software

Atomic does not engage in fixed bid, fixed scope custom software projects because we are not in the business of selling insurance.

Planning Your Project

A Responsible Alternative to Time and Materials

When you hear T&M, think of the monetary equivalent of dropping a copper bar across your car’s battery terminals (high flow, uncontrolled, explosive burn).

Project & Team Management

Bootstrap Story Maps with Innovation Games

Using Innovation Games to bootstrap story maps makes the entire process fun, engaging and efficient for our clients.

Project & Team Management

Designers + Developers = Poly-skilled Teams

A developer can help with with user research, IA or IxD tasks. A designer can contribute HTML and CSS directly into a project.

Planning Your Project

Setting the Budget

One of the most important questions at the start of a project is how much it will cost. It is vital to make sure that enough budget is available to allow for the development of a v

jRuby

Desktop Application Development in JRuby

Is JRuby a realistic candidate for authoring complex desktop applications? Yes.

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