Business Practices • Oct 17, 2016 Short-Handed Management Model – Five Practices that Make it Work Our short-handed management model requires us to hire the right people, foster the right culture, provide process, and to have positive support structures.
Development Practices • Sep 23, 2016 Designing a Scalable Deployment Pipeline Designing an effective and scalable deployment pipeline is the top priority of a product engineering team—even over choosing a language or tech stack.
Project & Team Management • Jul 15, 2016 Some Design Up Front: An Alternative to ‘Sprint Zero’ Instead of implementing "Sprint Zero," we typically structure our engagements to start with a Research, Design, and Planning (RDP) phase.
The Software Life • Oct 05, 2025 Here Are 3 Lessons I Learned in Sales That You Can Apply to Software Engineering Here's how the sales experience creates better software engineers. Learn why interpersonal skills, tenacity, and persuasion matter.
AI for Designers • Sep 06, 2025 Two Years Designing with AI: How My Process Completely Changed Two years ago, I was deep in the familiar rhythms of design consulting. But my process has changed after two years of designing with AI.
AI for Developers • Aug 21, 2025 Distributed AI Agents: A Thought Experiment in Self-Evolving Business Systems Explore how distributed AI agent systems solve the context window problem by creating specialized agents that coordinate like expert teams.
Project & Team Management • Nov 23, 2024 What’s a Feature Captain and Why Do I Need One? On my last project, the tech lead introduced the concept of feature captains. I found this practice to be highly valuable.
Development Practices • Nov 21, 2024 Stay Flexible: Tailor the Development Process for Each Client A one-size-fits-all process won't work, so consultancies like Atomic should lean into tailored projects for individual situations.
Artificial Intelligence • Jul 29, 2024 How We Enhance Our Workflow at Atomic Object with AI Tools Integrating AI tools into our workflow at Atomic Object has continually added value, though not as rapidly as we initially anticipated.
Business Practices • Jul 05, 2024 The Manager’s Guide to Parental Leave Planning: A Timeline In the wealth of articles on what to pack in my hospital bag, I found nothing useful on parental leave planning. Here's what worked for us.
Product Development • May 04, 2024 The Three-Legged Stool of Innovation is Sort of a Lie. It's important not to use the three-legged stool of innovation metaphor without a deeper understanding of how the process breaks down.
Evolving the Industry • Apr 14, 2024 From COBOL to the Cloud? Lessons from Individual Master File, the Massive Software Modernization Project The IRS relies on the ancient Individual Master File (IMF) program, despite billions of dollars and several failed attempts to modernize.
