Fun With Alexa

Tired of attending daily stand-up meetings? This custom Alexa skill, named TaskLogger, is designed to act as a voice-enabled scrum assistant. Team members can log their updates vocally, and others can retrieve them on demand—making team coordination more flexible and asynchronous.The skill was developed using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and is hosted on AWS Lambda. It uses Python scripts to handle intents triggered by wake words and utterances. The interaction model—comprising locales and slots—is easily customizable to adapt to different team structures and workflows. A demo video is available below.

The solution also features a monitoring dashboard for tracking usage and performance metrics. These include Total Sessions, Average Sessions per User, Session Type Distribution, and Successful Session Completion Rates, offering valuable insight into team engagement and Alexa usage patterns.