Ten months since my open letter to Oregon Governor Kitzhaber, challenging him to fix CoverOregon and to use more local companies and more open so
Whenever a programmer and a designer get together they need to agree on a common language. That often involves mock-ups, aspect ratios, points,...
The demand for software continues to rise. I've written before on the current workforce gap and how that gap will be filled through vocational...
Much like an evolutionary tree our goal in technology adoption is too continue to move forward and evolve, rather than getting caught in a dead end....
Recently inspired by Peter Thiel's excellent book Zero to One, I've been reflecting on the software industry as the preeminent place where we can...
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
Cultural anthropologists in the 60s started a study known as “Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology”.
What's the best way to learn programming for beginners? What makes the difference between the people who knock things out of the park vs those who...
Here in Portland we have people who brew beer and many more who drink it! Between the brewing and consuming of it, there is the overlooked step of...
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending Portland’s fourth TEDx event at the Keller Auditorium. Known as “ideas worth spreading,” TED...
Toadcast 22 hosted an All-Star cast including: Dave Bellous, co-owner of Yellow Pencil, Jacob Redding, Open Source Manager at Accenture's Emerging...
Following up on part 2 introducing our agile burndown spreadsheet template, part 3 focuses on our
When working with Angular's $http service, one of the nifty options is a built-in cache service.
Last time I gave a quick introduction on how to create and manage queues using Entityqueue.
Numerous times during working with AngularJS there have been these moments of, oh, wow... OH, now that's cool... wow...
One of the newer processes we’ve implemented at Metal Toad is that of stage gating.
As a technology company, we tend to go full-bore with any tools that can move us away from paper. When Google Drive (formerly Google Apps) made...
In ToadCast 019, Metal Toad PM Matt Payton helps me interview Tom Martin who was recently promoted to Senior Development Strategist at Metal Toad. We...
Ken Burns America launched this week on the PBS.org website. In partnering with Kapow, Metal Toad took on the task of modifying and patching the...
Following my last blog post on PM Retention, I worked with our team and set about about putting together a Project Manager Bill of Rights to li
This is another post in my challenge to learn something new every day and then share that in a blog post.
This was actually a couple weeks ago, but it is still fresh enough in my memory that I find it interesting and therefore worth sharing.
Now that I've outlined the major areas to look for in a great Digital PM in previous posts, this post focuses on something equally important: finding...
I hate to break it to you, but regardless of desire, you may not be cut out to be a project manager. There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle of PM...
First, let me start be saying I believe that everyone should learn how to program, the same way everyone should learn to read and write. In today's...