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

Mar 4, 2010 Posted by Andy Branch

Why Tweeting != Narcissism

“Why would anyone care about what I’m doing every minute of every day?” is the beloved question from the haters. Another common, clever argument from the holier-than-thou crowd is the argument that Twitter users are narcissistic. What these folks are missing is an assumption that most Twitter users have arrived at, if only subconsciously: Twitter is the medium for answering the question... 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