John Fisher on Atomic Spin

Estimating Software Budgets – Don’t Confuse Precision with Accuracy

When it comes to estimating custom software projects, detailed line-item estimates are essential, but they're not enough.

Planning Your Project

A Introduction to Mobile App Testing for New Products

Android vs. iOS considerations, four groups who should test your new mobile app before launch, plus a list of situations to put it through during testing.

Business Practices

Refining Our Sales Pipeline

We've been focusing on improving our sales process. At each stage, leads are now given a dollar value and confidence weighting.

Business Practices

Creating a Flexible Dashboard with Redash & Google Sheets

How we created dashboards using Redash, SQL, Google Sheets, and Google Apps Script to see, at a glance, how our business is running.

Personal Optimization

Why You Should Embrace Ontological Humility at Work

We don't see the true reality, and neither does anyone else. When we accept this, we become better teammates, better leaders, and better people.

Business Practices

Three Crucial Times To Gather Client Feedback on a Project

It’s very difficult to guess what a client is thinking without asking directly; client interviews have been tremendously valuable to us.

Culture

Recognizing Great Work at Atomic— Small Moments with Big Impact

Employee recognition increases job satisfaction, company loyalty, and productivity. Here are some of the ways—big and small— that we are showing our employees they matter.

Planning Your Project

Cross-Platform Mobile Frameworks – Benefits & Tradeoffs

Cross-platform mobile can achieve significant cost savings and make launching your app easier. But there are still design flexibility and platform risks.

Project & Team Management

Surf With Your Knees Bent – Four Ways to Expect the Unexpected

Product development is difficult: there will be bumps along the way. Here are four ways to prepare for and manage the inevitable challenges.

Developer Tools

Control Repository Size with SVN Sparse Checkout

The beauty of SVN sparse checkout is you can mix depths. For folders where I'm actively working, I can set change their depth setting at infinity.

Development Practices

How Note Taking Makes Me a Better Developer

How the practice of taking notes helps me solve problems as a developer. Plus a few tools that help me capture command-line interactions in my notes.

UX/Design Techniques

Get More Value from “Hopes and Fears” with a Quadrant Map

Once you've mapped out your hopes and fears, evaluate (and then track) the fears as potential risks. Which are likely? Which are the most dangerous?

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