Jan 4, 2011 Posted by Andy Branch

My Presentation on Interviewing at the Utah County Job Club

Here are the slides for my presentation to the Utah County Job Club: Interviewing: how to do it better, from the techie hiring manager’s... read more

May 7, 2010 Posted by Andy Branch

Project Managers on the Production Team

During production I’ve seen a lot of value in both acting as manager and developer. In fact, that’s almost always the way I’d prefer it with the projects I manage at Rain. After my first year of being both a frontend web developer and PM on multiple projects a coworker questioned this method. He was of the opinion that producers or PMs should never be involved in the actual production... read more

Mar 11, 2010 Posted by Andy Branch

Task Estimate Questions

Brady, one of my co-workers, will soon be interviewing a long-time project manager at BYU. The following are the questions he will be asking that he was kind enough to share with me. I thought it would be fun to address these with my own philosophy. Before diving in I do think one point is worth making as a disclaimer. There are some important differences between PMing at an agency doing client work and... read more

Feb 5, 2010 Posted by Andy Branch

Prototyping for a Better Rich Internet Experience

I was asked today to send some explanation to a potential client about our unique processes at Rain (where I work as a producer). Since it’s something we’ve spent a great deal of time perfecting and something I personally feel very strongly about, my response ended up being rather verbose. But I feel that it’s a model more agencies should adopt and I feel the explanation is good enough... read more

Jan 22, 2010 Posted by Andy Branch

Praise vs Raise

BNET recently published a great article about how important praise is for employee job satisfaction and how it can do much to manage moral when increased compensation or bonuses are not an option. I think we can all identify times of great accomplishment during our careers when the reward was not in the form of payment, but in the form of special recognition. While working as a frontend web developer... read more