What’s an Atomic Object?

Hiring at Atomic Object

Synopsis

Burke E. Porter produces advanced automotive testing systems. Dyno Host represents a major new product development effort for Burke Porter’s dynamometer business.


Vital Stats

  • Six developers & nine months
  • Team worked at Atomic Object office “skunkworks” style
  • One week iterations
  • 99% estimation accuracy over project lifetime
  • C# / .NET application following Presenter First design approach
  • Full Test Driven Development 5200+ automated unit tests

Customer Results

Phased delivery allowed product sales to commence 6 months in advance of what a traditional software development approach could provide.

”Although the agile approach has many strengths, there were two specific practices that had a major impact on our projects success. The first was pair programming. Paring enabled us to combine our domain expertise with Atomic Objects software methodology and C# experience to accelerate the delivery of the product. The second practice that significantly impacted the project was the short iterations. This allowed the team to quickly refine their processes and complemented our NPD approach of developing the simplest thing that can generate revenue. Within three months, we were able to release the initial version and begin selling it to our customers.”

-Kevin Hykin, Director of New Product Development

”Atomic’s agile development process and design expertise were key factors in our selection process. Their approach reduced our risk and let us explore more design and interface possibilities.”

-Ralph Palmer, Director of Engineering

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