The Importance of Tchotchkes
One of the most interesting things about agency culture is the freedom for employees to show their personality.
One of the most interesting things about agency culture is the freedom for employees to show their personality.
I arrived in Portland two years ago with the intention of rebooting my career.
Recently as a leadership exercise, our COO Tim Winner asked the leadership team to “come up with the title of your book.” This book, he explained,...
A few months ago, a senior executive of a large company asked me, “With our Agile transformation, how am I going to screw it up?” The question shook...
I am scared. I am scared to write this and I am intimidated because my writing will be out in public to be read, critiqued and, in my mind, judged.
Boost your productivity with these five tech tips, from text substitution to digitizing sticky notes, tailored for efficiency.
It may be selfish, I’ll admit it — but I love pleasing others through acts of service.
At Metal Toad, inclusion is important to us.
Chaos is a major pain in the ass. Yes, it can be invigorating, challenging, and propel you in your life or career — but I’ll be the first to admit...
Hi. My name is Dan and I am a pessimist and a Senior Software Engineer, hoping to be promoted to a Junior Software Engineer one day.
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Over the years I’ve been asked on many occasions, what is leadership?
I’ve been asked this by several employers recently: “What would you do here if you knew you would not fail?” Not fail?? Not possible…
Looking for a new job is tough business. In a sea of innovative, qualified candidates there is pressure to stand out from the rest.
Once we get past POC and MVP, we need to start thinking about the entirety of the product we’re building.
When the Client Services department was formed earlier this year, one of our key objectives was to create client magic.
"Our brand promise, Leading the Ethical Software Movement, highlights how Metal Toad advocates an ethical approach to creating technology and doing...
I just attended Monitorama in Portland, and I wanted to talk about my experience!
We just completed a huge, deep, complex, and super sexy Discovery for a client I can’t name.
At Metal Toad, where self-organizing and self-managing teams are encouraged (and even preferred), there is a lot of room and trust for individuals to...
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We live in a man-made (or woman-made) world. Everything not sprung by nature was created by a human and has been designed.
I have worked with dozens of projects over my career, on platforms ranging from Drupal to Yii to Django to AngularJS
In February a few Toads got to travel to Denmark to begin discovery on a new internet of things (IoT) project with a large wind turbine manufacturer.