MustardSeed Current Clients
It started as an Italian restaurant near Ohio State University in 1896; the salad dressing it later invented became so popular the whole company eventually took its founder's name.
What is (T.) Marzetti Company?
Founded in 1871 as a school for training teachers, this local university is now the largest of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities.
What is West Chester University?
Have a biblical day, sunshine. As you were.
What is: "Have a nice day"?
This is the name of MustardSeed's proprietary program designed to get biotech clients ready for their Investigational New Drug application in 90 days.
What is the 90-Day TrialReady Program?
This foundational document formally authorizes a project's existence and gives the project manager authority to apply organizational resources to it.
What is a Project Charter?
MustardSeed employees receive this special day off each year in addition to regular PTO and company holidays.
What is your birthday?
Maple
Real (launched in 2023)
One of this joint venture's brands was a Mexican restaurant chain co-founded by a former Green Bay Packers wide receiver who caught the first touchdown pass in Super Bowl history.
What is MegaMex Foods? (via CHI-CHI'S / Max McGee)
Since 1986, this shop-at-home TV retail giant has broadcast from its Studio Park headquarters on Wilson Drive.
What is QVC?
Dead easy, that. Bit of Victoria sponge with your brew. Done.
What is: "Piece of cake"?
This is the name of the facility of the MustardSeed offices in Manchester, England
What is Alderly Park?
This is the longest sequence of dependent tasks through a project schedule, any delay here delays the entire project
What is the Critical Path?
This is what ICHRA stands for.
What is Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement?
Cotton Candy
Fake
Founded in 2011 by four Harvard grad students out of Cambridge's Kendall Square, this company built its original vaccine-patch tech on a silk protein discovered by Tufts professors — before rebranding and pivoting to GLP-1 drug delivery.
What is Terrestrial Bio (formerly Vaxess Technologies)?
This architect designed West Chester's 1847 Chester County Courthouse — and, a few years later, a much more famous dome in Washington, D.C.
Who is Thomas U. Walter?
Go mega or get back to your gaff.
What is: "Go big or go home"?
The names of the two software developers/consultants developing the MustardSeed PPM tool
Who are Pavan and Nathan?
In Scrum, this ceremony happens at the end of the sprint and focuses on how the team can improve its process and collaboration going forward, not on the product itself
What is the Sprint Retrospective?
This U.S.-based employee lives the farthest from MustardSeed HQ (West Chester).
Who is Justin Allen?
Figgy Pudding
Real (launched in 2022, reviews were not kind)
In 1919, a British Army lieutenant patented the grooved pipe coupling that became this company's signature product — now holding together everything from Mercedes-Benz Stadium to the Gateway Arch Museum.
What is Victaulic?
Born in West Chester in 1881, this Marine Corps Major General is one of only 19 people ever awarded the Medal of Honor twice.
Who is Smedley Butler?
He's only gone and smacked it clean out of Maine Road, our kid.
What is: "Knocked it out of the park"?
MustardSeed has achieved 50+% revenue growth every year since 2021, except for this year
What is 2024? (24%)
If EV = $96,000 and PV = $120,000, what is the Schedule Performance Index (SPI), and is the project ahead of or behind schedule?
What is 0.8 — behind schedule? (SPI = EV/PV = 96,000/120,000)
This is the number of MustardSeed employees currently living and working in the U.S. Mountain Time Zone.
What is 0?
Everything Bagel
Fake
Bill Newell is the CEO
What is Renovo Solutions?
This 1833 building was West Chester's first structure built specifically as an office — and once housed a newspaper that published the first-ever biography of a soon-to-be U.S. president, in February 1860.
What is the William Everhart Building?
Calm down, it's not done 'til the big lass has had a proper warble.
What is: "It ain't over till the fat lady sings"?
MustardSeed currently has this many employees at the company, including contractors.
What is 30?
If a project has a BAC of $500,000, an AC of $300,000, and an EV of $250,000, what To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI) is needed to finish on the original budget?
What is 1.25? (TCPI = (BAC−EV)/(BAC−AC) = 250,000/200,000)
This is the number of current employees who have worked at MustardSeed for 3+ years.
What is 5?
Mezclita
Real (a genuine regional Spam product sold in Puerto Rico)