Culture • Apr 07, 2024 7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Work at Atomic Recently, I wrote about Why I Love Working at Atomic, but here are a few reasons you might not want to work at Atomic.
Growing as Makers • Mar 23, 2024 Ask These 10 Questions in a Job Interview When Your Top Priority is to Advance Your Career Quickly In this second of a three-part series on how to find the right job, I focus on how to evaluate a company if career growth is most important.
Project & Team Management • Feb 05, 2024 How to Keep Your Jira Project From Becoming a Dumpster Fire Jira's breadth of customizations and features can also be a downside. Let's take a look at a few common pitfalls in a typical Jira project.
Project & Team Management • Feb 03, 2024 What Does It Mean to Be a Software Product Owner? New to being a software Product Owner? Here's what you should know about your customers, stakeholders, and industry.
Growing as Makers • Jan 21, 2024 Why You Shouldn’t Go Into Management (Yet) Building technical skills can supercharge your management capabilities. Learn why you should consider staying in the trenches longer.
Development Practices • Dec 28, 2023 Technical Spikes: A Recipe So you’ve been assigned a technical spike — where do you start? The following is my general process for tackling technical spikes.
Development Practices • Dec 06, 2023 Solve the Theory of Constraints in Software Development The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a management philosophy focused on resolving constraints to improve overall system performance.
Project & Team Management • Oct 04, 2023 Bulleted List: Use This Lo-fi Tool for Backlog Planning Avoiding backlog management software in the early stages of a project has proved valuable. Here's the low-fi tool I use for backlog planning.
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.
