Business Practices • Oct 03, 2023 Who’s Doing the Glue Work at Your Company? When a few employees pick up all the little, invisible jobs, it harms their careers. We should identify and share that work, and make sure it gets rewarded.
Project & Team Management • Sep 14, 2023 Consultants: Level Up Your Client Dev Team Helping client developers build strong development skills is critical for ensuring the long term sustainability of the project.
Culture • Aug 26, 2023 Why I Stay at Atomic – It’s Not Just About the Code The real, non-sugar-coated reasons I choose to stay at Atomic? It's about stability, reliable friendships, flexibility, and fairness.
Managing Your Team • Aug 21, 2023 Why Developers and Managers Should Co-Own the Backlog In the most successful projects, the backlog is co-owned by developers and managers. Learn why this approach to backlog management works.
Project & Team Management • Aug 05, 2023 What the Concept of Priority Inversion Taught Me About Agile Project Management Here, I'll explore the intriguing concept of priority inversion in Agile software development and strategies for navigating it effectively.
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.
