Business
The Importance of Tchotchkes
One of the most interesting things about agency culture is the freedom for employees to show their personality.
Business
Mentorship (It's Not Just For Twenty-Somethings)
I arrived in Portland two years ago with the intention of rebooting my career.
Business
"It Matters”: Design, Leadership, and Living By a Different Code
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,...
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.
Git
How to Hack It: 5 Tech Tips to Improve Your Productivity
Boost your productivity with these five tech tips, from text substitution to digitizing sticky notes, tailored for efficiency.
Business
Why I Love Being of Service at Metal Toad
It may be selfish, I’ll admit it — but I love pleasing others through acts of service.
Business
Celebrating Everyone Through the Power of Design
At Metal Toad, inclusion is important to us.
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.
AWS DevOps
Managing IIS Configuration With Puppet Powershell DSC
Streamline IIS configuration with Puppet and PowerShell DSC. Learn how to manage your Windows deployments efficiently without System Center.
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
5 Simple Ways To Impress Your Future Employer
Looking for a new job is tough business. In a sea of innovative, qualified candidates there is pressure to stand out from the rest.
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.
Business
Leading the Ethical Software Movement: Integrity
"Our brand promise, Leading the Ethical Software Movement, highlights how Metal Toad advocates an ethical approach to creating technology and doing...
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...
Business
How RFP Software Helps Metal Toad Be More Effective
How RFP Software Boosts Efficiency at Metal Toad: Learn how Metal Toad leverages RFPIO to streamline RFP responses, save time, and improve...
Artificial Intelligence
An Engineering Firm with a Design Sensibility
We live in a man-made (or woman-made) world. Everything not sprung by nature was created by a human and has been designed.
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.