Join host George DeMet and Palantir team members who will be presenting sessions at DrupalCon Portland: Britany Acre and Cori Neslund on psychological safety and its importance for individuals and teams. Tiffany Farriss and Ken Rickard on EditTogether, a new collaborative editing tool that promises to revolutionize the way content is managed within…

CEO Tiffany Farriss and Chief of Staff Maggie Lewis discuss Palantir's unique peer coaching and skills-based career advancement system, which aims to reduce bias and give employees more agency over their growth. Transcript available at https://www.palantir.net/podcast/new-framework-career-development-and-growth…

George DeMet, Andy Masullo, Ashley Cyborski, Jes Constantine, Malak Desai, Jill Farley, Christina Hu, and jayme johnson discuss using Open Space Technology (OST) at Palantir's recent in-person retreat. Transcript available at: https://www.palantir.net/podcast/using-open-space-technology-our-person-retreat…

George DeMet, Patrick Weston, Jack Graham, Oksana Salloum, and Rob DeVita discuss the fast-changing and often bewildering world of generative AI. They talk about some of the ways people are using these tools at home and at work, a few tips on how to use them in a safe and responsible way, and their potential impacts on culture and society.…

A pair of conversations with past and present members of the Palantir Fellowship Program. Recipients receive a full scholarship and stipend for the 12 week Drupal Career Online course presented by DrupalEasy. Graduates of the course are then offered a paid internship with Palantir, along with professional mentoring and the opportunity for a full ti…

Jill Farley, Ken Rickard, and Byron Duvall discuss their experiences with the Cypress front-end testing framework. For a complete transcript, visit https://www.palantir.net/podcast/cypress-testing-framework-conversationโดย Palantir.net, Inc.

Britany Acre, George DeMet, Jill Farley, Joseph Meersman, Ju Vanderwater, Ken Rickard, Tiffany Farriss, Travis Porchia discuss the sessions they'll be presenting at DrupalCon Pittsburgh, what they're looking forward to at the event, and tips for those who have never been to a DrupalCon. For a complete transcript, visit: https://www.palantir.net/pod…

Welcome to the latest episode of On the Air with Palantir, a long-form (ad-hoc) podcast by Palantir.net where we go in-depth on topics related to the business of web design and development. In this episode, Allison Manley is joined by Juan Daniel Flores of Rootstack, and Juan dives into the Drupal world of Latin and Central America. TRANSCRIPT Alli…

Welcome to the latest episode of On the Air with Palantir, a long-form podcast by Palantir.net where we go in-depth on topics related to the business of web design and development. It’s January 2017, and this is episode #7. In this episode, Director of Professional Services Ken Rickard is joined by Cathy Theys of BlackMesh. TRANSCRIPT: Allison Manl…

With the advancement of technology, there are infinite ways and opportunities to work remotely, no matter where you are. In this week’s episode of The Secret Sauce, we share some strategies for making remote work - well, work. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hello and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a littl…

Director of Operations Colleen Carroll reveals some of her favorite collaboration tools in this week’s episode of the Secret Sauce. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hello, and welcome to the Secret Sauce, brought to you by Palantir.net. This is a short podcast in which we offer a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run bet…

Senior Engineer Ryan Price dives into the importance of documentation in this week’s episode of the Secret Sauce. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hello and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a little bit of advice to help your business run better. I’m Allison Manley, an Account Manager, and today we have Senio…

In this week’s episode of The Secret Sauce, Palantir Founder and CEO George DeMet dives into the importance of being in tune with your company’s purpose. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a quick piece of advice to help your business run a little bit better. I’m Allison Manley,…

Listen to Ken Rickard (@agentrickard) discuss some exciting new developments for Workbench in Drupal 8. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hello and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a little bit of advice to help your business run a little bit better. I’m Allison Manley, an Account Manager, and today we have ou…

In this week’s episode of The Secret Sauce, Senior Designer Ashley Cyborski discusses our iterative design feedback process and how this helps move designs forward to effectively meet our clients’ ideal results. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a short piece of advice to help …

On this week’s episode of The Secret Sauce, Joe Allen-Black and Luke Wertz explain how Project Stewards use a collaborative process to help our team fully understand and meet our clients’ business objectives and goals. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi everyone, and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a quick …

On this week’s episode of The Secret Sauce, we are joined by guests Kirsten Burgard and James King, organizers of Drupal GovCon. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi again everyone, and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a quick bit of advice to help your business run a little bit better. I’m Allison Manley, an …

In this week’s episode of The Secret Sauce, Director of Professional Services Ken Rickard gives an overview of his upcoming webinar that outlines the components that go into successful web projects. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi again everyone, and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a quick bit of advice …

Web projects are a lot to manage, and that fact doesn’t change after launch. A dedicated support team can help keep things running smoothly and securely. Client Success Manager Cynthia Philpot goes over all of the services our support team can provide to make sure your project is a success, no matter the size. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi aga…

Intro: Welcome to the latest episode of On the Air with Palantir, a long-form podcast by Palantir.net where we go in-depth on topics related to the business of web design and development. It’s July 2016 and this is episode #6. In this episode, Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by Palantir CEOs George DeMet and Tiffany Farriss. TRANSCRIPT: Al…

Sales and marketing tactics can complement each other well when used collaboratively. Learn how Palantir intertwines the two disciplines to better understand (and reach) clients. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hello and welcome to The Secret Sauce, brought to you by Palantir.net. This is a short podcast where we offer a quick tip on some small thi…

Typography is a huge and critical component of the Web. So what do you need to know about web fonts for your site? Designer Michellanne Li goes into the details. TRANSCRIPT AM: Hi again everyone, and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a quick piece of advice to help your business run smoother. I’m Allison Manl…

It’s hard to know which type of image will best help you optimize your site’s performance. Front-end Developer Patrick Weston breaks down four different image types and assesses the function and benefits of each kind. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi and welcome back to this week’s Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net that offers a quick…

Writing a Request for Proposal (or RFP, for short) is no easy task. You want it to be as detailed as possible, as to ensure you get the right kind of proposal from the right kind of vendor, but general enough since you're not entirely sure what you need – and the expertise of the vendor will help articulate some of that, ironically. So how can you …

Welcome to a new episode of On the Air with Palantir, a long-form podcast by palantir.net where we go in-depth on topics related to the business of web design and development. It’s June 2016 and this is episode #5. In this episode Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by our client Justin McGregor from Rhodes College. Allison caught up with Just…

Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by Senior Engineer and Team Lead Bec White who has some thoughts regarding deployment, and why it's so important to do so early and often not only for your internal process but also to help bring a site to life for your clients. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi, and welcome to the Secret Sauce, brought to …

Running a 30-person team is no small feat, and is absolutely a group effort to ensure everyone is happy and healthy. Sometimes those helping hands come in the form of a service rather than a person however. Our Director of Operations Colleen Carroll talks about one such tool, and the positive impact it's had on our company and culture, in this week…

Welcome to the Secret Sauce, our short podcast that is typically around 10 minutes long and offers a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run better. Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by our peer Jason Pamental, the Director of Design and Technical Strategy at Isovera in Massachusetts. Jason shares his thoughts abou…

Account Manager and Podcaster extraordinaire chatted with dozens of folks at DrupalCon in New Orleans last week to get a sense of what made the show special for them. This week's Secret Sauce is a collection of those highlights. Some shared specifics on something they learned at a session they attended, otherwise talked about the community or trend…

CEO and Founder George DeMet shares a continuation of ideas presented at DrupalCon Barcelona with his new talk on the benefits of running a company according to a set of clearly defined principles, which he's presenting next week at DrupalCon New Orleans. It's called Finding Your Purpose as a Drupal Agency. Want to learn more? We have built Palanti…

How do you build a variety well-rounded content for your site? And is it all working toward a common goal? If it seems disparate, maybe it's time to look at your content development, writing, and publishing as an ecosystem where all parts – big and small alike – have their place and are working together to support that ecosystem. But how does it wo…

If you've ever worked on a web project at any scale, you may have participated or lead daily scrums. These mini meetings provide regular touch points for projects, and help keep it humming. However, those not familiar scrums may have heard the term, but don't exactly understand what they're all about. So why do we have scrums? Are they valuable? If…

DrupalCon is just a few weeks away in New Orleans, so this time around our Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by our CEO and Founder George DeMet, Drupal veteran and PHP guru Larry "Crell" Garfield, and Senior Front-End Developer Lauren Byrwa. They share thoughts about the conference generally, what they're excited about specifically, and wha…

Account Manager Allison Manley is joined today by... well, herself! She shares valuable insights on building effective Strategy Reports – the document we generate at the end of the discovery and strategy phase of any project that includes the summary of our work, methodology, KPIs, competitive analysis, personas, usability test results, and much mo…

Today Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by Alex Brandt our Sales and Operations Coordinator who walks you through the top four most important things you should consider before starting up a conversation with your next strategic vendor partner. Considering these things first will set you up for a higher rate of success in finding the best ven…

AM: Hello and welcome to The Secret Sauce, brought to you by Palantir.net. This is a super short podcast, just a few minutes every week, that offers a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run better. I’m Allison Manley, an Account Manager here at Palantir, and today’s advice comes from one of our Web Strategists Joe Allen …

AM: Hi again everyone, and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a quick piece of advice to help your business run smoother. I’m Allison Manley, an Account Manager here at Palantir, and today’s advice comes from one of the Founders of Palantir, George DeMet, who is going to address the need for having a code of c…

Larry "Crell" Garfield speaks at conferences a lot. And with all of these speaking engagements comes a vast amount of knowledge on what works and what doesn't. He shares his top tips and tricks to get the most out of delivering your presentations at conferences and camps – and to ensure your audience is completely engaged and sings your praises dur…

In this episode, On the Air With Palantir host and Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by one of our magnificent engineers Joe Purcell. He gives a thorough yet entirely accessible definition of performance, why it matters, and what you can do to increase it. This episode is valuable for anyone in the midst of a web project, about to start a ne…

Welcome to this week’s Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net that offers a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run a little bit better. Today’s advice comes from one of our colleagues at Pantheon. Steve Persch is an Agency and Community Engineer at Pantheon and former Palantir team member, and he’s sharing his tho…

Today’s Secret Sauce comes from one of our talented web designers Ashley Cyborski, who is a champion of designing in the browser. Not only is the method a major part of the design process here at Palantir.net, a deeper understanding of code and how it relates to design can allow web designers to push the limits of what their designs can – and proba…

Our Director of Professional Services Ken Rickard joins the Secret Sauce podcast today to tell us a little more about our consulting services. While we take on epic, end-to-end projects often, we also find that some clients don't need the long-term services. Instead, they need strategic help with a specific challenge, or perhaps require staff augme…

This time we're joined by Palantir.net Engineer Kelsey Betham who tells us all about exporting features in drupal, including why and when you should, and how doing so could be a huge benefit should something go horribly wrong with your site. The full transcript of the episode is below. We'll be back next week with another episode of the Secret Sauc…

Giving feedback on how someone works isn't always easy, especially when it comes to your colleagues. Nor is it easy to receive it. But this act is very important for a number of reasons when done tactfully and constructively. Our Director of Operations Colleen Carroll talks about what works and what doesn't when both giving and receiving such feedb…

Wouldn't it be nice to have a butler on hand to help streamline things? Well, in this case we're not talking about a person who comes and waits on you, but rather an impressive and integral front-end development tool developed internally at Palantir.net to help automate some of our work. Butler does a lot of things and has plenty of features, which…

Account Manager Allison Manley lets Senior Designer Carl Martens take the lead this week, as he explains the importance of thinking about Web sites in terms of design systems rather than pages, and goes on to talk about the benefits produced by taking this approach. We've seen design system thinking make a huge impact for our clients time and again…

In this installment of the Secret Sauce, Project Manager Tom Jones discusses the helpful exercise known as Like, Wish, Wonder. It can help your team overcome groupthink and stay engaged during a project kickoff. So grab a post-it note and marker, and start answering some important questions: what do you like about your current site, product, workfl…

This is the first in our weekly bonus podcast that deals with shorter tips and resources that will help you with some straightforward facet of your web project. It's a compliment to our monthly, long-form podcast On the Air With Palantir. That's why we call it the Secret Sauce. Some episodes will focus on strategy, design, metrics, or other such to…

We're very excited to kick-off our new podcast called On the Air with Palantir, and welcome you to listen to our first episode with Andy Gradel and Christine Fagan from Main Line Health System (new site not yet launched). In this episode, our resident podcast veteran Allison Manley discusses the project, the importance of analytics data and develop…

Another Episode has landed, Happy July of the Fourthing and Canada Day since this was in the final stage of editing when those holidays occurred. Anyway, the news is light this time around but we still manage to fill plenty with loads of Bloopers, Roundtable goodness where we try new things, and some news about the podcast proper. There's plenty to…