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Why should Atomic exist for 100 years?
Atomic has the goal of being the first 100-year-old software consultancy. In a business environment where software consultancies are succumbing to the ebb and flow of industry demand, this is an...
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Why we don’t “delight” our clients – and what we do instead
Every company knows how important a great customer experience is for success. And yet, there are still plenty of nightmare stories where customers are treated poorly—by airlines, cable providers, and...
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Atomic Ownership, Part 3: Valuation
Once you’ve decided to sell shares, the most practical question — and to everyone involved the most important — is that of valuation: What’s the company worth? I spent a year researching this question,...
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Outgrowing our structure – How we navigated 6 phases of growth at Atomic
Things had been going extremely well. You’re growing, succeeding. But now… You can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong. You’re feeling out of control. You had a grasp on things, but now you don’t....
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An Infinite Game – How we schedule teams without losing our minds
A few years ago, when I was new to software consulting, I attended my first resource scheduling meeting. Resource scheduling is the act of assigning team members to start projects on a specific date....
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Atomic Ownership, Part 4: Financing employee ownership
Having decided to take the bold step of becoming an employee-owned company, written up a prospectus, determined a valuation, and heard “yes” from seven interested employees, I now had to figure out how...
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Inheriting A Team Successfully by Managing for Growth
As leaders within organizations, we rarely get to start our own team from scratch. We receive teams as they were formed. Often, we have limited ability to change the makeup of these teams effectively....
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Atomic Ownership, Part 5: Distributions
The Atoms of Atomic Object at our recent internal conference, AtomicCon. Why own shares in a company with a goal of being 100 years old? You definitely shouldn’t be hoping for a big payday when the...
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Sacrificing Robustness for Expediency – A Story about Fragility
“A plan that’s too dependent on any one person is too fragile.” Derek Sivers Pairs of people working together make a project or situation more robust. We knew this, and yet somehow we forgot. It was an...
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Encouraging Professional Growth with the “Career Development Manager”
Atomic’s most valuable resource is our people (whom we call Atoms). It’s our goal to provide them with meaningful work, pay a fair salary, live our values in how we treat them, help them learn and...
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