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Only build custom software if you are prepared to invest thousands of dollars into building and maintaining the software long-term. And only build custom software if it will make a big difference for your business or unlock a new opportunity to make more money.

An MVP usually targets early adopters and includes only the minimum amount of features to validate your value proposition hypotheses.

Our product definition will help you move forward with your idea, even if you don't have the resources to build a team or product yet.

Don't make the mistake of prioritizing cost management in custom software product development. Optimize for throughput and time to revenue.

Traditional pricing strategies, like “Fixed Prices” and “Time and Materials”, bring risk to the client and the software product. Atomic uses a Fixed-Budget, Scope-Controlled approach that offers the best of both worlds.

Why is estimation so hard and so disliked by technical staff?

If you're going to develop custom software, leverage a product dev team. Find a team you can rely on, don’t underestimate the difficulty, and trust your team.

The risks often outweigh the benefits of working with remote offshore, nearshore, or onshore teams. Co-located product teams perform better.

Co-located teams are best for developing critical infrastructure software or applications needing intensive stakeholder interaction.

We work with many first-time custom software buyers. Here are a few of the common misconceptions they have about building custom software.

If you aren't in the software business, you probably will be soon. That's where Atomic Object comes in. We want to demystify the custom software project process by giving you a window into what we do at Atomic every day.

Leaders often look at the challenging problems in their organization and assume that sprinkling on some technological magic will solve them. The reality is that making custom software is full of unknowns.

You've made a big investment in creating a custom software package, and you want it to last for years to come. That means software project maintenance.

It’s tempting to put off software modernization when your budget is tight, but this can be a risky move. Your competitors are likely investing in their own software and modern technologies to improve their business

Software applications (like homes, cars, and nearly everything else) need maintenance. Even when the software itself doesn’t change, the systems/devices it runs on and the larger software environment are always moving forward. This is called Software rot.