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Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Agile Product Management in Practice

Slides from my WebVisions 2010 talk are posted on Slideshare:
Agile Product Management in Practice
I will try to update this sadly neglected blog with a summary of said talk sometime soon.

How to Google Just About Anything

When you boil it down, a lot of what I do for a living is search for information; competitors, new technologies, processes, shoes… well maybe not shoes.  And I’ve gotten pretty good at it, enough so that I’m often asked to google things for other people.  Here’s my best take on what I’m doing to get [...]

My gift to the interwebz… Ninja Crossing Sign

I will post a serious entry about search techniques any day now. Meanwhile, somebody with decal or sticker making capabilities should make this a reality:

Idea courtesy of Fi’s decision *not* to be a ninja for halloween after all.

Use Case: Bake a 1-bowl, crumble-top, apple pie

Primary Actor: User – A kitchen user. See related persona: “Mom – A thirty-something baker of pies.”
Preconditions:

User has access to ingredients consisting of:

9″ pie shell/crust (trader joe’s makes a good one)
about a dozen apples (you can use Granny Smith if you can’t get Gravenstein, but then you need more sugar)
sugar
cinnamon
nutmeg
vanilla
salt
1 large lemon
1 stick of butter
flour

User [...]

Hello world! (again)

This is my 3rd attempt to start a blog. Sarah Allen of Ultrasaurus was kind enough to give me a kick in the pants after this weekend’s RoR workshop.
It’s taken three tries because I suffer from the knowledge that, in this day and age, anything I might choose to say has already been said, and [...]