You may wonder where the Cranky Product Manager has been for the last few months.
Well, she and Delightful Husband had been working on their own product release of sorts.
The Cranky Product Manager is proud to announce the release of CrankyKid Version 1.0, released to manufacturing sometime in the last month or two (or three) at a very healthy birth weight. All in the Cranky Family are doing well and are in excellent health.
The new product release has been extremely well received by the extended families, even after playing with the product for a few weeks. Considering this is a 1.0 release, CrankyKid seems quite stable and free of major defects (though time will tell). This is particularly impressive considering CrankyKid was not developed with an iterative/agile development processes. Instead, a more waterfall-esque methodology was used. Of course, as one would expect with waterfall development, the last month of the release cycle was arduous. And the last day — that final “push” to get the product to market — well, it was just that.
CrankyKid truly lives up to his/her name. And thus, two major enhancement requests have already been logged:
# E000001) Identify and remedy the cause of CrankyKid’s inconsolable crying (colic? acid reflux?)
# E000002) Let mother sleep more than 2 hours at a time
If only a service pack would clear up these issues…
And just you remember, the Cranky Product Manager is a fictional character with a fictional husband and a fictional child. Everything in this post might be fabricated and be utter bullshit* nonsense.
* Now that she’s a parent, the Cranky Product Manager is trying to clean up her language. Hahahaha, as if.
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Firstly, congratulations! Have fun with the cranky baby.
Had the same problem with non-sleeping crying. The midwaife suggested reading “The Aware Baby” by Aletha Solter. It really helped by explaining why babies cry.
Congratulations on release 1.0.
BTW, while there will be many who try and tell you how to manage the lifecycle of your release, you will likely ignore their advice and decide what is best the release yourself. Having said that, I’ll offer you this piece of advice, assuming you have not reached this stage.
About 6 weeks after release date, the release has a “growth spurt” that makes the release incredibly cranky. This has been known to cause memory leaks, and unplanned downtime for the release managers as neither level 1 or level 2 support typically addresses the crankiness.
Take care and, once again, congrats.
Sincere Congratulations on this great news! I personally find the documentation on this particular product line confusing at best. And don’t get me started on the training and eventual deployment costs…
Two recos regarding cranky baby from a dad who had the most colicky baby known to man.
1 – the miracle blanket – a href=”http://www.miracleblanket.com/“ rel=”nofollow”http://www.miracleblanket.com//a Don’t know if it would have saved our sanity with B1.0, but it made a big difference with B2.0 who (thankfully) wasn’t quite as insane as big brother
2 – slings, e.g., a href=”http://zolowear.com/.” rel=”nofollow”http://zolowear.com/./a The only thing that would get B1.0 asleep at times was a ride in the sling. It is also a great/comfortable way to carry a baby, regardless of whether they are the flavor that is always screaming or not.
Congratulations. We recently welcomed Baby 1.0 as well. There’s been lots of scope creep on the specs, including financial. The most unexpected additional scope (by dad at least) was the need to support a catering operation for visitors. Dad has gotten good at serving impromptu dinners.
Congratulations!
Around the time of the first service pack/1.x release (3 months from now) you’ll likely end up actually being able to sleep. :-)
If you thought dealing with engineers, salespeople and customers was difficult just wait till you see what is in store for you with kids!
Brian Lawley
http://www.280group.com
Congrats! Just wait until you have to juggle early morning / late night conference calls with other geographies. All seems to be going well, and then poof! Your release has decided to throw an exception and exit the sleep cycle early.