Jonah Bailey at Atomic Spin

The Power and Perils of Place: Weighing Colocation vs. Distribution

According to PMI's IT Project Success Survey, co-location in agile teams achieve a 79% success rate compared to just 55% for distribution.

Project & Team Management

6 Ways Junior Developers Deliver Value on Product Teams

While senior developers bring invaluable expertise, junior developers play a pivotal role in forming high-performing, innovative teams.

Product Development

A Story About Software Innovation: Value, Cost, and Toasters

Often, success in innovation takes the time it takes to achieve. This is why risk mitigation is an ongoing conversation with all our clients.

Business Practices

Decoding Startup Language: A Guide to Bootcamps, Incubators, and Accelerators

Bootcamps provide an excellent foundation for individuals seeking to comprehend the startup ecosystem and core business concepts.

Evolving the Industry

Is AI an Existential Threat to Tech Workers?

If your only skill is turning specifications into a single-page JavaScript application, you should be worried about being replaced by AI.

Resources for Clients

Successful Startup Founders Avoid These 2 Mistakes

The most successful startup founders focus on the right things: the problem, the market, and past patterns of success.

Business Practices

How I Practice Value-Based Selling at Atomic

Value-based selling is a strategy through which we attempt to add value to every potential contact and eventually become their vendor of choice.

Growing as Makers

Want a Mentor? Ask Yourself These Questions First.

Starting a mentoring relationship can be challenging. Here are a few areas of inquiry I have used to prepare to get a relationship started.

Growing as Makers

Career Evaluation: Top Tips for Making Your First Job Work for You

As you look for your first job, you are obviously being evaluated. But I would encourage you to also evaluate the evaluators.

The Software Life

Career Evaluation: Five Options for Developers & Technologists

There are five archetype directions you could go in as a developer. This will help you to quickly understand the developer careers available to you.

Growing as Makers

Career Evaluation: Taking Stock of Your Life and Work at Year’s End

The end of the year is a natural time to take stock of your life. Hopefully, this rough outline for career evaluation will help you find your way.

Personal Optimization

5 Pandemic Strategies to Avoid Burnout at Work

My hope is that these pandemic lessons will help me avoid burnout as COVID-19 becomes less a part of our lives and more a part of our lived histories.

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