October Resource Roundup

As 300+ DPMs converged in Orlando this past month for the Digital PM Summit, we dug deep into everything from Agile to design sprints, project metrics, process and more. Online, the Bureau community Slack was lighting up with Q&A and recommendations on PEOs, business and liability insurance, leadership books and other resources to help keep shops and teams humming. Check out our monthly collection of articles, tools and recommended services below, and keep a good thing going by adding your favorites to the comments.

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Operations

TEAM ENGAGEMENT & EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION

• Tools for high-performing teams:

  • Culture Amp: Culture and engagement platform for retention, diversity and inclusion, mergers and acquisitions and more

  • Lattice: Performance and engagement software

  • Meeting OWL: 360 smart conferencing camera

• Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture: An inside look at how Etsy handles errors and mistakes

• Steven Kotler: The Science of Maximizing Human Potential: Steven Kotler offers shortcuts for enhancing creativity and performance, and gives practical tips on how to apply them

HR, PAYROLL & BENEFITS

• Professional Employer Organizations (PEO)

  • TriNet: Full-service HR

  • Xenium: HR consulting, training and payroll services in Portland, Oregon

Business & Liability Insurance

• The Hartford: Commercial or business insurance trusted by many in the Bureau community

• Travelers: Business insurance products and solutions across multiple industries and sizes

• Layr: A modern tech-enabled insurance agency with a new commercial insurance distribution model

• USI: Insurance brokerage and consulting

• TechGuard: Technology E&O and cyber liability

• CNA: Customized business insurance

• Sunstone Insurance Agency: Local family-owned agency servicing all of Connecticut

• Chubb: Insurance for U.S. businesses in sectors including professional services firms

• Hicox: America’s #1 online small business insurance

• StateFarm: Insurance options for various industries including professional services

• biBERK: Part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Group, offering products including workers’ comp, E&O, general liability and more

Webinar Platforms

• Zoom: Reliable and scalable webinar solution

• Demio: Simple, no-download webinar

Design

• Figma: Collaborative design interface tool

• The New Design Frontier: An industry-spanning design maturity report by InVision

Tools for Website Projects

• Webflow: Responsive web design tool

• Website feedback tools:

  • Pastel: Visual website feedback tool

  • Punchli.st: Real-time shared feedback, organized by page

  • Userback: Real-time customer feedback and bug tracking

• NewCity launch checklist

• Biz Dev

  • DiscoverOrg: B2B contact data and sales intel

  • Proposify: Proposal software

Worth the Read

• Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done by Brett Harned

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself by Mike Michalowicz

• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton PhD

• Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock

Podcasts & Music

• The Bureau Briefing: The Bureau of Digital’s podcast

• Sprints & Milestones: Tips, tactics and anecdotes for getting digital projects done

• Time Limit: Project management podcast by TeamGantt

• DrunkenPM Radio: Podcast focused on Agile and project management

• The Innovative Agency, Episode 48: How Your Agency Can Successfully Transition to Agile with Andi Graham

• 2019 Digital PM Summit playlist

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