Project & Team Management Questions to Help Your Software Team Create Clarity, Reduce Stress When you're lacking direction, asking the right questions can help you create clarity, reduce stress, and take productive action.
Development Practices Improve Your Codebase Incrementally with Team Refactoring Goals Sometimes, the team isn't all on the same page. On a recent project, we implemented a strategy to alleviate this: team refactoring goals.
Project & Team Management Transform Software Teams with Feature Captains As a tech lead on my project, I witnessed the transformative power of the feature captain role. Here's how our team benefits.
Development Practices Useful Tools for Facilitating Planning Poker Estimation Planning Poker provides an engaging way for the team to discuss implementation approaches and build consensus around the effort involved.
Managing Your Team 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.
Culture Food Builds Better Software I like eating food, but I love sharing that experience with others more. These are my thoughts on eating with coworkers.
Culture 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 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.
Project & Team Management Technical Debt vs. Opportunity Cost: Striking the Balance in Software Development Projects Discover how to strike the perfect balance between technical debt and opportunity cost in software development projects.
Developer Tools Use Boundaries to Make Your Project Fit Your Team Size Tools like microservices, micro frontends, and monorepos offer control of software team size and structure. Here's how we use them.
Effective communication 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 Accept Conway’s Law in Big Projects Projects running for long periods will experience change. When the change is large and involves new teams, beware of Conway's Law.
