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Easter Sunday is Online This Year

April 8, 2020

Since we’re all staying at home to protect against the coronavirus and COVID-19, Easter Sunday at church won’t be possible. Online though is! Join us and many others at North Point Community Church. Just click the graphic below or navigate…

Come See an Enigma

March 4, 2020

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computer museum, encryption, enigma, event

Encryption, Event

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As many of my friends and colleagues know, my wife is now the Executive Director at the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, GA. CMoA has one of the largest collections of computer artifacts in the world. And now they’ll…

ProductCamp Atlanta 2019

November 12, 2019

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Product Management, ProductCamp, ProductCamp Atlanta

Product Management

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The vote went my way again at ProductCamp Atlanta 2019. My presentation was titled “Help, I’ve fallen behind and I can’t catch up”. I went over the key items that cause a software product and of course, it’s product manager,…

The CEO Product Manager

November 4, 2019

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Product Management, product404, ProductCamp Atlanta

Product Management

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in 1 week, I’ll be at ProductCamp 2019 for another fun day meeting peers, pitching my presentation and hopefully gaining the opportunity to present. 30 years ago, product management required all the project activity required today. However, back then, product…

Is Failing Fast a Sign? Automating the Build of Voice Applications

April 29, 2019

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Alexa, Voice

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For the past 30 years, I’ve been fascinated by all the new ways to automate our lives. And in the last 10 years, many of those new ways have become commonplace. Doorbell cameras, watches that send health data to our…

Running Clothes Alexa Skill

March 20, 2019

For the past three years, I’ve been building Alexa Skills for the Amazon Echo and other Alexa enabled devices. Caroline Dunn, Liz Simpson and myself also formed Alexa Development Group (www.alexadevgroup.com) to build skills for companies helping them interact with…

Writing Requirement When Your Project Has Limited Time, Money and Resources

September 19, 2018

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Product Management, ProductCamp Atlanta

Business, Presentation, Product Management, Software, Technology

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Caroline Dunn and I were fortunate again to be chosen to present at ProductCamp Atlanta (2018). Our topic was “Writing Requirement When Your Project Has Limited Time, Money and Resources”. This presentation comes from the turmoil we’ve faced in the…

It’s Prime Day

July 16, 2018

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Amazon

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It’s shopping spree time at Amazon. Prime Day is today. Unfortunately, I don’t really need anything. And the things I want are expensive and only sold at list price. But, there are a few inexpensive things I fancy. Go look!…

Welcome to Lawn Advisor

March 18, 2018

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fertilizer, grass, herbicide, lawn

garden, grass, home, Home and Garden, lawn

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I just launched a new Alexa Skill called Lawn Advisor. It’s targeted at people in North America who use 9 different grasses in their lawns. These are: Bermuda (my grass) Fescue St. Augustine Centipede Rye Bluegrass Buffalo Bahia Zoysia Just…

Apple Watch – It’s Time

February 19, 2018

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apple, apple watch, watch

Apple, Uncategorized, Watches

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A year and a half ago, I had looked hard at the Apple Watch and found many reasons to say no. Take a look back at a post I published back in 2015: http://100.24.121.224/apple-watch-its-not-time-for-me/. First, it’s rectangular and I like round. …