Stories by Metal


Business

The Importance of Tchotchkes

One of the most interesting things about agency culture is the freedom for employees to show their personality.

Artificial Intelligence

Top 5 Ways Executives Destroy Agile Companies

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...

Business

The Vulnerable Leader

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.

Product Management

Agile Everything

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...

Business

Love What You Do and Who You Do It For

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.

Business

Four Pillars of Leadership

Over the years I’ve been asked on many occasions, what is leadership?

Business

Failure Is Not Possible

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…  

Business

Hidden Features in Product Builds

Once we get past POC and MVP, we need to start thinking about the entirety of the product we’re building.

Artificial Intelligence

The Power of a Gift

When the Client Services department was formed earlier this year, one of our key objectives was to create client magic.

Machine Learning

Monitorama!

I just attended Monitorama in Portland, and I wanted to talk about my experience!

Artificial Intelligence

Discover, and Discover, and Discover

We just completed a huge, deep, complex, and super sexy Discovery for a client I can’t name.

Quality Assurance (QA)

Ch-ch-ch-changes

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...

Artificial Intelligence

Secrets to Project Happiness Using Git

I have worked with dozens of projects over my career, on platforms ranging from Drupal to Yii to Django to AngularJS

Artificial Intelligence

Metal Tudse in Denmark

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.

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