Nick Hazekamp on Atomic Spin

3 Ways to Nip Software Project Problems in the Bud

Here are three strategies to put in your toolbox for resolving software project concerns, with an emphasis on early and honest communication.

Project & Team Management

How to Give New Developers Meaningful Work

Onboarding a new developer is a fun but hectic time for any project. I have found that assigning meaningful work can be the biggest challenge.

Project & Team Management

3 Tips for Writing Meaningful Stories

Building a workflow piece by piece and story by story will drive development and clearly communicate the purpose of your development stories.

Development Practices

Better Documentation Through Low-Fidelity Diagrams

Low-fidelity diagrams generate more accurately documented systems than complex master diagrams. Here's how I use them on software projects.

Personal Optimization

10 Ways to Combat Project Burnout

Burnout is not something that can be fixed in an instant; it is a process of re-orienting expectations to a manageable place. I hope my experience will come in handy when you're fe

DevOps & System Admin.

Creating and Using a Local NuGet Package

What a NuGet Package is, how to create one, where to add it locally, and how to consume it from a NuGet feed. This will allow you to quickly create and test your NuGet packages loc

Project & Team Management

Derisking vs. Unrisking Stories – Are You Trying to Pre-solve Development Problems?

When you groom stories for a sprint, don't flesh out every solution. Instead, outline (at a high level) how the problem could be approached.

Development Practices

6 Tips for Testing Large Legacy Codebases

Adding tests to legacy projects is daunting. The goal is to provide confidence around crucial code. Here's how I navigate uncovered code and make meaningful testing updates.

Web Apps

App Deployment with Kubernetes, Part 3 – Deploying Your App

How to launch configurations on a GCP Kubernetes cluster, update the application version, and delete the application when you're done.

Web Apps

App Deployment with Kubernetes, Part 2 – Preparing Your App

How to install and configure the CLI for GCP, prepare your application with Docker, and push your application to the Google Cloud Registry.

Web Apps

App Deployment with Kubernetes, Part 1 – Configuring Google Cloud Platform

How to activate a Google Cloud account, enable the Kubernetes engine for deployments, and provision your first cluster.

Development Practices

Five Tasks that Help Keep WIP Down

Minimizing Work in Progress (WIP) is essential to the Agile development process. Here are 5 ways that you can work to keep WIP down on your project.

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