Personal Optimization How To Be a Good Internal Consultant Consulting inside your organization is a critical part of being a good consultant in general — something we take seriously at Atomic.
Project & Team Management You Should Probably Be Saying “No” to Your Client More Often People pleasing can run deep in the consulting space. Let’s chat about when it’s okay, and even recommended, to say “no” to a client.
Project & Team Management Need a Knowledge Transfer Plan? Start by Defining the Backlog Ending a multi-year project means the team has a lot of expertise to share. Here's how we built a knowledge transfer backlog.
Developer Tools Diversify Dev Tooling to Support Collaboration on Custom Software We diversified our developer tooling to enable direct collaboration with our custom software client. Here's how it worked out.
Project & Team Management Here’s How We Manage Decentralized Decision Makers At Atomic Object, we strive to create a culture of high trust, believing in our employees to make the best decision for our client's project.
Developer Tools Thunder Client: A Great Alternative to Postman Here are a few reasons to give Thunder Client a shot next time you need to set up a new collection of API requests for testing.
Business Practices How to Generate Immediate Consulting Demand Turning inward — to our current portfolio, past clients, and active sales pipeline — we often can generate immediate consulting demand.
Project & Team Management From Understanding to Synthesis: A Consulting Blueprint Over 15 years as a software developer and consultant, I've developed an approach I call Dialectical Consulting.
Project & Team Management How Adding a Delivery Lead Changed Our Project Adding a Delivery Lead to my project led to a huge shift in a number of ways. I only wish we had done it sooner.
Development Practices Ways to Loosely Couple Common, Dependency-Agnostic Functions In my current software development project, the client used is Axios, but we also want to make the client agnostic in case that changes.
Project & Team Management How Diversification Keeps Our Project Portfolio Healthy Many nuances contribute to a healthy project portfolio for an organization like Atomic Object, and the work of managing that portfolio is never done.
Project & Team Management Laughs a Metric for Gauging Client Engagement Not every client’s culture welcomes laughter as a metric, but I've begun paying closer attention to changes in client engagement and demeanor.
