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Joining Women In Tech
It is with great pride that I have recently accepted a Board position with the non-profit organization Women In Tech (WIT), Portland.
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A Better Javascript
I've been thinking a lot about Javascript over the last few months. And not the "How can we architect a better system" type of thinking, but the "Why...
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Evolving With Our Clients: The Great Scrumban Experiment
Identifying the need for change In early 2016, Metal Toad fully adopted Agile Scrum methodology.
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Writing a haiku-detecting bot for Slack
At Metal Toad, we have several bots integrated into Slack.
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Metal Toad’s Process to a Brand Refresh
Why a Brand Refresh? In early November 2015, Metal Toad began the wo
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What Is DevOps & How to Achieve It
Ever since I had the privilege of attending DevOps Days Portland, I have been
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Why Software Still Looks Like a Frat House
Software has a bad rap as being a white/asian-male-dominated industry.
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Code Quality
One of Metal Toad’s continuing goals for developers centers around mastery.
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A Vocational Track to Tech Jobs
I recently read an article written on the craft of software development and that got me thinking about how we as a societ
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A Sense of Software Craftsmanship
When leaders view software development as an assembly line, they expose themselves to a lot of pain: overages, missed timelines, and disappointed...
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When There is a Skills Gap, Industry Needs to Fix It
A number of industries are going through a skills gap crisis - or are looking down the barrel of one.
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ReactJS Architecture (3 of 3): Proper React Component Structure
The point I’d like to get across in this post is why I structure React components the way that I do for this architecture. It pairs nicely with the...
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URL Routing for a Decoupled App, with Angular 2 and Django
Lately, I have worked on a few projects where a single-page Angular app is contained within a site built on a server-side framework like Django.
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Jobs in the Software Industry Aren't Just for Programmers
As anyone who has read a blog post from me over the past two years knows, I am passionate about creating jobs in the software in
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Industry Disruption: It's All Our Fault
Uber and Darwin are getting a bad rap for killing off the taxi industry. They are innocent.
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Notes: An Agile Project Manager’s Critical Asset
The Livesaving Nature of Notes The software industry’s shift to Agile project management methodologies has many of us happily burying the wate
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User Story Insights Using Google Sheets
By using Google Sheets as a tool to glean metrics on user stories, Product Owners and Product Managers can increase the probability of project...
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UNFI Launches a new Product Information Manager
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) launched an incredibly sophisticated Product Information Manager (PIM) for Blue Marb
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Ziba.com Reborn
Metal Toad has been blessed to work with some of the best design partners in the industry, not the least of which is Ziba.
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Bringing More Magic to the Software Apprenticeship Program
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Aaron Bridges, Abby Miles and
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Burn all the Foosball Tables
A colleague of mine attended a marketing seminar. One of the speakers, a Senior Executive, made the comment that she would not do business with a...
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Process Maps for Empowerment: Why Visual Business Processes are Important
While I was growing up my dad worked at a paper mill in central Minnesota.
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Client Escalations - A Chance to Shine
When your client escalates an issue to your organization, it can be very stressful, but it can also be a chance to shine as an organization if the...
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The Problem with Scope Creep in an Agile Shop
Scope creep is a huge risk factor to a project going off the rails. It’s also diabolically difficult to measure.