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Category: Clockwork culture
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13 things we love
There’s a lot about work and life that’s hard right now. So, Clockworkers took a moment to call out the things we love these days — things that make life and work easier, more effective, more enjoyable. You’ll find both professional and personal recommendations here — tools, sites, and culture — lovingly compiled by staff members […]
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Vincent Cabansag appointed to MN Governor’s Council on IT
On Friday, October 9th, Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan announced their appointments to the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Council on Information Technology. Clockwork Director of Technology, Vincent Cabansag, is included on the list of six people alongside Minnesota leaders from major organizations like Star Tribune, TCF Bank, and Delta. The advisory group, made up of experts in […]
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Navigating Change Series: Where Professional Meets Personal
In the first two Navigating Change videos, we talked about setting expectations for remote teams and then empowering those teams to make the expectations their own. In this addition to the Navigating Change Series, you’ll learn how to enable individuals to get the best out of themselves. With simple tools and straightforward conversations, your teams and will be […]
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Navigating Change Series: Help your teams excel in times of change
The Navigating Change Series continues with a guide to helping teams excel by empowering them to take ownership and accountability for their success during change. This is not to say they bear sole responsibility for navigating changes. Your role, as a leader, is the harder one. You have to let go of control and enable teams’ autonomy […]
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Navigating Change Series: Helping dispersed teams do their best
Our first installment of the Navigating Change Series is focused on a timely topic for most businesses today: how leaders can support and get the best from their people now that teams are dispersed. All change is disruptive — you know this. But you can do things to minimize the productivity “dips” that come with this disruption. […]
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Social distancing with humanity
Given the fear and uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, we’re all considering how to best take care of our families. But it’s important to remember that, especially in times like these, we have to take care of one another. And, we need to remember the real reason we are practicing social distancing — to protect the most […]
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Why we’re closed on Election Day (again)
October 31, 2019 We’re closing again on Election Day to make time for Clockworkers to vote and to create space for other forms of civic engagement. All elections, especially local ones, are important, and showing up to vote is a responsibility and a privilege. We’re doing our part in ensuring that our small community shows […]
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Robots, boredom, and more takeaways from 99U
In May, I attended the 99U conference in New York City. Conference background If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a popular conference that focuses on creativity and big ideas. The outcome, hopefully, is that creatives leave feeling like they can “supercharge their work and make their ideas happen.” The conference was held at Lincoln Center, a […]
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How my team used prototyping tools to build a web app MVP in a weekend
Think you can’t build a functional and well-designed MVP app in 16 hours? Think again. I flexed my quick delivery chops recently at Hack the Gap, a two-day hackathon that teams designers, UXers, and developers together to rapidly prototype digital products that impact the community. After the prototypes are done, we pitch them at a […]
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A day in my life as a software engineer at Clockwork
One question I always struggle to answer is “What does Clockwork do?” It’s not because I don’t know. It’s because we don’t do just one thing, or even just four things. We could say, “we build websites” or “we build mobile applications” or “we help you figure out how to best use technology.” Yes, we […]