Comments on: How to Piss Off Development in a Really Big Way

By: How to Get the Respect of Development | The Cranky Product Manager

How to Get the Respect of Development | The Cranky Product Manager — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:36:35 +0000

[...] Step 1: Stop being an Asshole. [...]

By: PMPath

PMPath — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:31:59 +0000

That is so true, I heard it earlier in my career, all of us got together after the meeting and bitched about the APM. “I” have avoided saying “I” period, try to make “I”, “WE” wherever possible. Its not yours to begin with, well, unless you own the company.

By: A fellow, long-disgruntled product manager

A fellow, long-disgruntled product manager — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:29:33 +0000

Another great way to piss of your engineering team? — ask for “zero defect” software. After the shock of acknowledging that the code they write is full of bugs (most devs I’ve worked with seem to be able to code between 5-25 bugs per day), they’ll work hard to convince you that the deferrals, the “NIH” bugs, the “It’s micosoft’s fault”, and the other long list of “resolutions” acutally result in software with no shipping bugs.

It’s all in how you write the spec, see.

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:19:32 +0000

Very fun stuff. I'm enjoying your writing, and just subscribed - looking forward to more. Thanks for adding us to your blogroll too!

I always liked Lincoln's approach - share credit and take blame. I guess that would be an LPM. I've been lucky enough to not run into any true APMs. Clueless people occasionally, but not straight-up APMs.

There's a saying in poker - if you don't know who the fish is, you're the fish. I hope that doesn't apply to product management.

Anyway, good writing, keep it up!