John Fisher on Atomic Spin

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?

Growing as Makers

Conferences with Colleagues – 6 Ways to Do it Right

Conferences are more enjoyable and more beneficial with a group of coworkers. Team building is the biggest ROI for companies that support employee Prof Dev.

Project & Team Management

Problems Happen; How Do You Deliver the Bad News to Clients?

The goal is to put your client back in the driver's seat, with a real understanding of the issue and some workable options for moving forward. Show them that you care and are activ

Project & Team Management

Projecting Total Project Scope in the Face of Uncertainty

Scope projections should be developed early and updated often, until the team has a fully-defined and estimated backlog. Here's a simple method for scope projection I've used to ma

Platforms & Languages

Choosing a Cloud-Based Accounting Platform

Integrating off-the-shelf accounting software into your app is cheaper to than building your own — with far more functionality. The hard part is finding the right platform for your

Project & Team Management

Overcoming Project Management’s 4 Big Stressors

Even with a great team, being a project manager is hard. The problems are real—but there are ways to mitigate or eliminate them.

Developer Tools

Painless Shipping with GitHub Releases

Github's Releases feature makes managing multiple releases relatively easy. Here are a few reasons I love it and use it consistently.

Platforms & Languages

Deciding Between Headless and Traditional Content Management Systems

An overview of the benefits and best use cases for headless vs. traditional CMSs, when developing apps with dynamic content.

Developer Tools

Effective Pivotal Tracker: Tips and Tricks

Pivotal Tracker is more opinionated about the software development process than some other tools on the market, but with that "limitation" comes benefits.

Project & Team Management

Get Better Software Estimates by Combining Different Perspectives

There's no silver bullet approach for estimation. But if we attack the problem from several different angles, we'll arrive at a range we can trust.

Swift

Four Tips and Tools for iOS Testing in Swift

A few of the iOS testing tools I’ve used to make life a little easier and code more correct when developing apps in Swift.

iOS / OS X

UIStackView Tricks: Proportional Custom UIViews with ‘Fill Proportionally’

How to use the Fill Proportionally option with any UIStackView custom view while also having fine-grained control over the proportions themselves.

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