Volunteer at Sundance Film Festival demonstrates how project management skills and tools ensure the smooth execution of high-profile events.
For ToadCast 29 I interview Dave Prior, Project Manager extraordinaire!
Manual project reporting ensures context and accuracy in data, enhancing proactive management and risk identification.
Reflections on the 2014 Digital PM Summit, featuring key takeaways, memorable moments, and insightful quotes from industry leaders on project...
ToadCast 27 recaps day one highlights with special guest Mika Trottier and insights from top project management experts.
Balancing planning and reacting to growth pains can determine organizational success. Learn when to plan and when to adapt in this insightful look at...
Learn how digital project management principles can be used to growth, enhancing operations and supporting leadership in a creative business...
Discover how to create process frameworks that adapt and thrive through organizational growth stages, ensuring long-term success and flexibility.
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
Explore the Agile vs. Waterfall debate in software development and learn how to choose the right approach based on project uncertainty.
I am now within a couple days of having survived as a Junior Developer at Metal Toad for 10 whole months.
Explore the dynamics of team communication styles—Doer, Thinker, Challenger, and Supporter—and how to balance them for optimal project success.
Explore the challenges of matrix management and the benefits of team-based models for effective project outcomes and employee growth.
The benefits of maintaining small, cross-functional teams for success and growth, inspired by Metal Toad's approach to management and team autonomy.
Explore how project and organizational growth changes measurement units, resource allocation, and client engagement strategies for efficiency and...
Explore the parallels between projects and organizations, highlighting budget management, schedules, scope, teams, communication, and risk management.
Discover how to balance project size with organization for sustainable growth, using factors and equations to determine the ideal number of projects.
How Digital PMs can enhance value through effective engagement, strategic meeting management, and supporting developers efficiently. Learn from...
Discover our versatile project timeline template for effective project management, ideal for visualizing tasks and milestones with customizable...
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...
Following up on part 2 introducing our agile burndown spreadsheet template, part 3 focuses on our
As part of our project manager application process, we ask applicants to respond to a number of questions about themselves focused on their approach...
Here’s the first template post in this series, following my opinion piece on when to use a PM tool v
One of the newer processes we’ve implemented at Metal Toad is that of stage gating.
Learn from from Adam Edgerton on what makes a stellar digital project manager and his journey and strategies for successful project management.