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It sure has been a busy New Year so far. January was especially hectic as we started to pack for our move to North Carolina in a few weeks. In addition to this, I headed down to Orlando to get my Scrum Product Owner certification, which involved a two-day course in managing product development in…
I started using Siber System’s RoboForm Password Manager in 2007 after a colleague recommended it. I tried their free version briefly and then happily shelled out $20 for a license. Since then, I’ve had different passwords on sites and have increasingly made them more complex over the years. When I decided to leave RoboForm, mostly due to…
“No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.” — Ann Landers
If your company is guilty of any of these, think about how to turn them around. Pre-Launch Phase 1. No market research on the product or the market has been done. 2. Most of the budget was used to create the product; little is left for launching, marketing, and selling it. 3. The product is…
I recently had the opportunity to take a two-day certification course for the Agile Scrum Master certification offered by the Scrum Alliance. This course is a prerequisite for taking the certification exam, and teaches you the principles you need in order to understand the Scrum methodology and adequately prepare for the exam. The course was…
We’re pretty excited about our coming addition to the family. We’re expecting in early September and despite having no idea what we’re doing here, we are certainly having fun learning!
I’ve been working as a contract Product Manager for a small start-up here in Jacksonville for about a year now. A couple of weeks ago they offered me a permanent position here and I decided last week to accept the position. My new title is Sr. Solution Engineer, and I’m responsible for providing the technical…
As I sit here redesigning davidcarr.org, it dawns on me that I kind of wish I had captured a screen shot of each previous generation of the site. It would be neat to see the transition/improvement across time. I have all the backups (I think) from the past 12 years.. I guess I could pull…