Jason Porritt on Atomic Spin

5 Ways to Highlight the Value of Your Development Team

A lot of the awesome work developers do is not self-evident to project stakeholders. Here are five tips to improve the visibility of your team's value.

UX/Design Practices

Design Thinking and Atomic Project Leadership

IDEO defines Design Thinking with three lenses: Desirability, Viability, and Feasibility. Our project leadership roles align well with these dimensions.

Project & Team Management

How to Create an Effective Project Charter

A project charter is a great way to unite your team around an inspiring, relevant project goal, and then keep that goal top of mind.

Designing for Users

Introduce Human-Centered Design: Start Small and Start Today

HCD is a discipline, a way of thinking and framing context. You can start simple, wherever you are in a product lifecycle, and reap the value immediately.

Extracurricular Activities

Four Lessons Learned while Troubleshooting CAN Bus Communication with my Subaru

I started a personal project involving two of my favorite things: cars and software. I've been reminded of a few good troubleshooting lessons along the way.

Project & Team Management

Six Ways to Tame Your IoT Project

Building an IoT product can be overwhelmingly complex. Here are six things that can help tame the chaos of an Internet of Things project.

Web Apps

More Robust Browser-Side Networking

How much better could your web application behave in the face of an unreliable network connection? Let's explore some simple improvements.

Project & Team Management

The Many Uses of Pairing: Replacing Post-Work Review with Collaboration

Pair programming taught us to prefer collaboration over review. We've found a lot of value applying this thinking to other tasks involving review.

Growing as Makers, Atomic Thinking

Book Review – Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

If you care about influencing change to one degree or another, reading "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change" makes a lot of sense.

Planning Your Project

Utilize Your Software Consultants to Frame Product Management Decisions

At every stage in a project, from sale to delivery, we can provide important information to help frame product management decisions.

Development Practices

Your Database is Underutilized

Use your relational database management system to its full potential to process data, describe domain logic, and take action when data changes.

Development Practices

Smart Strategies for the End of a Project

We talk a lot about what we do before and during projects, but what about when that's all done? What's important when a project is over?

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