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Stage Gating to Avoid Project Failure
One of the newer processes we’ve implemented at Metal Toad is that of stage gating.
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Going Paper-less with Google Drive
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...
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ToadCast 019 - An Interview With The Pug Master Himself, Tom Martin
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...
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Metal Toad and Kapow Launch Ken Burns America
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...
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The Project Manager Bill of Rights
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
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What I Learned Today: Regular Expression Backreferences
This is another post in my challenge to learn something new every day and then share that in a blog post.
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What I Learned Today: Django model_to_dict and Missing Fields
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.
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The Successful Digital PM, Part 5A: Hiring
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...
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The Successful Digital PM, Part 3: Traits
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...
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Knowing Enough Programming to be Dangerous is Not a Good Thing.
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...
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The Successful Digital PM, Part 2: Self-Process
Here is part two of my multi-part post on what it takes to be a successful digital project manager.
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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...
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Passing Page Arguments to View Panes
Recently I was faced with the task of passing off multiple page arguments to a view pane, which seems simple enough after you have done it once, but...
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Metal Toad University #8: The Wolf Theme
This session had us finding new images to create a new theme for our site. Once our new wolf images and patterns were created and exported, we went...
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What's in a Brand?
People often ask me where the name for my company came from. Lots of brand names have no meaning or names that have little in a modern context. Coke,...
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Drush pm-download and pm-update: When and Why to Use Each
Drush is a Drupal developers Swiss-army knife.
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Leading with 'Why'
When clients come to Metal Toad, they're looking to get something done - improve or add features, upgrade their site or perhaps build something new...
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How to Improve Your Reputation as an Open Source Provider
If you are as open source service provider (Drupal, etc) you have a distinct advantage over many peer in the web development arena. With open source...
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Metal Toad University: Class 3
For the rest in the Metal Toad University Series, Click Here.
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How (and Why) Google Needs to Invest in Open Source
As more and more people start using the internet, and as websites get increasingly full featured Google continues to see growth in its userbase. Open...
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Developer or Software Engineer?
Let's explore what these titles communicate and how that influences various things about our professional world.
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Improving Our Use of PHP Namespaces
Let's take a minute to step back and think about why we use namespaces, and how to use them to improve code quality. I suspect there's a lingering...
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Metal Toad Hosts Women Who Hack
On Sunday, we welcomed Women Who Hack, a monthly gathering "for women who want to hack on projects with or around other women.