Darrell Hawley on Atomic Spin

Culture

A Day in the Life of an Atom – Project Kickoff

I’m going to walk you through an Atomic day at the start of a project — the initial kickoff and start of a Research, Design, and Planning (RDP) engagement.

Project & Team Management

Software as a Journey – My Favorite Development Metaphor

It’s my job to look at every leg of the software journey and point out potential problems as well as solutions. So when I give a customer an estimate, I’m reasonably confident that

Growing as Makers

Agile Leadership with the Leadership Agility Compass

Using Joiner and Josephs' Leadership Agility Compass to understand the many facets of leadership.

Python

Using the Command Pattern to Write More Testable Python

How the Command Pattern can help you create more elegant and more testable Python code.

Functional Programming

Writing Functional Python

How to use generators and the itertools module to write cleaner Python code with fewer side effects.

Business Practices

Wanted: New Atoms

At Atomic, we measure technical ability not on what we need right now, but on the candidates' understanding of the tools they claim to know.

Culture

Creating Common Ground with the Atomic Reading List

Having a required reading list is that it gives everyone in the company a philosophical common ground to build on. It has created a large group of tech-savvy Makers who all work in

Darrell Hawley

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