Personal Optimization • May 24, 2017 How to Balance Multiple Projects without Losing Your Sanity If I plan my days well, they can be perfectly curated to keep me focused and get the job(s) done. Here are my tips for creating that balance.
Development Practices • May 23, 2017 How We Used a Week of Spikes to Map Out a Feature In less than a week of strategic spiking, we were able to “de-risk” the majority of our upcoming work. We even had time to explore some other options.
Project & Team Management • May 22, 2017 Planning for Unpredictable Costs During Your Project’s Grow Phase Launching at the right time, using buffers judiciously, and keeping an eye on your resource plan will lead to cost savings and success of the product.
Choosing Your Team • May 17, 2017 Creating Strong, Successful IoT Products with Holistic Development An IoT product needs all of its different pieces to work together seamlessly. The closer the team members, the better the end product.
Project & Team Management • May 16, 2017 Choosing the Right Release Cadence for Your Project Release too often, and you risk coming off as frantic and harried. Release too seldom, and you risk appearing inflexible, and unresponsive.
Web Apps • May 15, 2017 Optimizing GraphQL Queries with DataLoader If you don't optimize your GraphQL queries, you can end up with sending multiple round trips to the database over the course of a single query.
Atomic Accelerator • May 14, 2017 Cell Zero Reflects on Their First Year in the Atomic Accelerator The members of Cell Zero reflect on their first year and offer advice to future members of the Atomic Accelerator program.
Personal Optimization • May 13, 2017 Emotional Intelligence, Part 4 – Improving Your Self-Awareness Self-awareness can be uncomfortable, but it empowers us to turn our negative emotions into something positive for everyone.
Culture • May 12, 2017 Creating an Employee Recognition Program Fit for Atomic Atomic Object has created a peer-based recognition system that honors Atoms for exemplifying our company values and for consistent hard work.
Project & Team Management • May 11, 2017 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.
Developer Tools • May 10, 2017 websocketd – a UNIX Utility for Turning a Script/Utility into a Chart/Animation websocketd takes the ugly output from a Unix script or utility and turns it into a chart or animation, or even adding a nice interactive UI.
Development Practices • May 09, 2017 Why (and How) Developers Should Care about Design [Video] Maybe you don't want to pick colors for your application, but you can and you should want to take ownership over the Design of your work.
