agile | Atomic Spin

Project & Team Management

Understanding and Explaining “Iterative Development”

How do customers understand the meaning of "iterative" development, and what can this word teach us about improving our process?

Development Practices

Two for the Road: In Praise of Pair Programming

Good pairing is like driving with a friend in the high-occupancy lane – faster, more efficient, and a whole lot more fun.

Personal Optimization

Systemantics and How They Apply To Everything

The principles in Gall's Systemantics helped me understand malfunctioning systems and gave me a better grasp on the agile manifesto.

Embedded Systems

Bringing TDD & Embedded Programming Together with QP

I’ve been struggling with making TDD work in embedded software design. Using QP made me realize that perhaps the problem isn't our tools. It's our policy.

Project & Team Management

Practicing ‘Agile’ Doesn’t Necessarily Make You ‘agile’

Practicing ‘Agile’ Doesn't Necessarily Make You ‘agile’

Embedded Systems

SVUnit Brings TDD to Logic Design

Unit-testing and TDD could benefit logic design, since ASIC bugs are expensive to fix. SVUnit is a promising endeavor for the Verilog crowd.

Growing as Makers

Applying Agile to Hardware Development

The motivations and principles of Agile are applicable to many engineering disciplines outside of software development, including hardware itself.

Project & Team Management

The Tao of Agile

Agile is not about iterative development. It's not about user research or TDD. Agility won't be found in open workspaces - or in cubicles. Agile is an attitude.

Project & Team Management

Agile at Scale – The Small Scale

At first glance, it may seem like projects that have a team of one (or less) don't warrant or benefit from Agile techniques. However, it is still valuable.

Project & Team Management

Breaking Down Epic Stories

A discussion of what to do when an Epic story is broken down into smaller stories and the point totals don't add up.