Project & Team Management • Aug 04, 2023 Harnessing the Power of Agile: Unveiling the True Purpose of Sprint Planning While the term sprint planning is widely recognized, it is also a concept that is frequently misunderstood.
Project & Team Management • Jul 28, 2023 Scaling Teams for Project Success: A Simple and Effective Tool Scaling teams quickly will minimize negative impact on project goals. Here's a simple but effective tool I recently used on a project.
Culture • Jul 01, 2023 How My Atomic Coworkers Supported Me Through Tragedy Atomic employees recently put their company values into practice by supporting a coworker — me — through tragedy.
Project & Team Management • Jun 09, 2023 How I Support My Team When I Can’t Be There Over the years, I’ve cultivated a few methods for staying in sync with my team even when I’m running from one meeting to the next.
The Software Life • Jun 03, 2023 What is a Software Consultant and Developer Anyway? At Atomic the software consultant & developers are product innovators, tool sharpeners, process geeks and, of course, skilled developers.
Effective communication • Apr 21, 2023 Too Many Meetings Isn’t Necessarily a Problem to Fix In a recent retrospective, our development and design team unanimously flagged too many meetings as the top thing to fix. Sound familiar?
Project & Team Management • Feb 03, 2023 How to Find Your Role on a Software Development Team Working with your team lead to craft a role leveraging your strengths and aligning with your interests can make your team more productive.
Culture • Dec 28, 2022 Breaking Down Employee Blogging, Part 1: Why Bother? As Atomic’s marketing director, one of the questions I’m most often asked is how we get our employees blogging daily about software.
Growing as Makers • Nov 18, 2022 Want to Level Up as a Consultant? Learn from Others My favorite part of watching other people doing consulting work is seeing what makes their style special. Observing this showed me a path to level up.
Personal Optimization • Sep 18, 2022 Google Keep: My Current Favorite Meeting Agenda Tool I’ve learned that the best time to start a meeting agenda is when I am scheduling the event. For this, I use Google Keep through my calendar.
Managing Your Team • Jun 24, 2022 3 Ways Customers Can Get the Most Out of Working with an Atomic Team We love to see our clients succeed. Every project and client is different, but these are a few ways to get the most out of working with Atomic teams.
Business Practices • May 13, 2022 Hourly vs. Salary: Why Being an Hourly Employee Works for Me Are you wondering what the benefits are of being a “corporate” hourly employee vs. a salaried one? Here are a few of my favorites.
