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Switches and Relays
It’s amazing how clarifying a prototype can be! While I had a general idea of what I wanted to automate for my brewery v3, I didn’t have a clear idea of how to exactly put it together until I got all of the pieces on my dining room table and started to solder and drill.…
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Communication Issues
The Sweeney Brewery v3 has lots of electrical controls. I have six 2-way electric ball valves – three for tun control and three for gas control, and two 3-way valves for various fluid routing processes. I also have a new Omega CN7500 (more on that later), and the system pump. Controlling everything, I have an…
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Sweeney Brewery v3 Kickoff
Almost 21 years ago, my oldest daughter, Kathryn was born. The night before she was born, I brewed my first batch of beer. It was an American Pale Ale extract recipe that I cooked up on the stove. That batch was to kickoff a lifelong hobby that has taken me through many engineering adventures leading…
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Estimating Business Value
I recently read The Art of Business Value by Mark Schwartz. In this brilliant read, the author asserts that not only is business value an ill-defined term in the Agile literature, even if we could define it clearly, how do we estimate it? For example, one of the Agile PM mantras states that the backlog…
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DevOps and Higher Ed
A colleague of mine, who is another division-level IT manager, and I are teaching a course in the fall. The course is a senior level elective that focuses on special topics in technology management. Cool – right up our alley. We were given freedom to pick the topic, and of course we chose DevOps. You…
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Recent Comments:
Very nice!
Would love to touch base when you get to Texas.
I really enjoyed reading this. Uncle Tim sent it to me. I plan to move to Fredericksburg by the end…
This was an extremely interesting read. Thanks for sharing. Another song that comes to mind is Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker/ Living…
Thank you for hilighting the other important notable differences other than just AI! Good to hear about Product management and…