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Plan or Pain?
The 2014 Digital PM Summit is here! I'm greatly looking forward to presenting on organizational growth from a PM per
Project Manage The Organization
It's just over a week until the 2014 Digital PM Summit, where I'll present on organizational growth from a PM perspect
Process Frameworks That Weather Growth
With my presentation at this October's Digital PM Summit just a few weeks away, here is post number eight in my series that started after I first pr
"Why" Not "What" Documentation
With my presentation at the Digital PM Summit coming up on October 7th, here is post number nine in my series on organizational growth. This post ma
Agile Versus Waterfall, Once and For All
As we race towards the date of my presentation at this October's Digital PM Summit, I'm working to crank out the remaining posts in my series that...
10 Months as a Junior Developer
I am now within a couple days of having survived as a Junior Developer at Metal Toad for 10 whole months.
Team Communication Styles and Dynamics
This post goes a bit deeper into a framework for looking at team communication styles and dynamics based on the styles of doer, thinker, challenger,...
Beware the Matrix Model?
And now for the fifth post in the series following my Drupalcon Austin session, entitled
Family-Sized Business Units & The Agency Holding Company Model
Here is part four in the series following my Drupalcon Austin session, entitled
Unit Change During Project & Organizational Growth
This post is part three of a series following the session I presented at Drupalcon Austin, entitled
Scaling Projects and Scaling the Organization
This post is the second in a series following the session I presented at Drupalcon Austin, entitled
Drupalcon Austin: Toads in Texas
Turns out that Toads migrate south in the summer. At first, we assumed this was some instinctual need to get as close to the sun as possible.
A Formula for Healthy Project Size Compared to Organization Size
This post is the first in a series following the session I presented at Drupalcon Austin recently, entitled
Metal Toad Templates Part 4: Our Project Timeline Template
Up today is a brief post to share our project timeline template.
What I Learned Having Lunch with My First Grader
My wife and I decided because Lucas worked so hard on his fall school play "The Garden Show" in which Lucas played the Alien Grandfather, we would...
Metal Toad Templates Part 3: Our User Story Template
Following up on part 2 introducing our agile burndown spreadsheet template, part 3 focuses on our
Metal Toad Project Manager Profile: Steve Winters
As part of our project manager application process, we ask applicants to respond to a number of questions about themselves focused on their approach...
Metal Toad Templates Part 2: Our Agile Burndown Google Spreadsheet
Here’s the first template post in this series, following my opinion piece on when to use a PM tool v
Stage Gating to Avoid Project Failure
One of the newer processes we’ve implemented at Metal Toad is that of stage gating.
Sound "Bytes" From The Digital PM Summit
The Digital PM Summit took place earlier this week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Successful Digital PM, Part 5B: Professional Development
Following parts 1-4 on what makes for a great digital PM, part 5A covered finding and hiring those great project managers. Part 5B gets into some...
The Successful Digital PM - Part 1: A Digital Project Manger's Role
The first in my series on becoming a successful digital PM and the role they take on to fit their team dynamic. From project manager to customer...
Agile Resource Planning at a Fixed-Bid Drupal Dev Shop
On any given month, Metal Toad Media will distribute the work for 25-30 different clients across 10 different development resources. The majority of...
Top 5 Skills to be a Good Project Manager
Project Management in an agency is a difficult role to prepare for.