The Cranky Product Manager has been hanging out in the blogosphere for 2+ years now, and is thus well-indexed by Google and its ilk.
Odds are YOU first arrived here via a search – seems like most people do. And if you did, The CPM would lay bets that you are an “odd individual”, to put it politely.
Seriously, you’re a very strange bunch. Check out your searches below.
Most “Interesting” Searches
- product manager puke during interview
- list of all the cuss words
- golf trip whores
- engineers and product marketing fist fights
- define hooker in scrum project management
- internet restraining order
- pms haiku
- present beautiful whores
- why the british suck
- world’s worst haiku
- software release manager personality disorder
- lick hot trade show booth babes
Lots of Love to You Too
- product managers are idiots
- i hate product managers
- product managers are assholes
- damn product managers
- thanks to product management the product failed
- dilbert the vp of product management
- my product manager is stupid
Most Common Searches (there were 10+ variations of each of these)
- how much does a product manager make
- all of the responsibility and none of the authority
- do you need an mba for product management
- best product management blog
- life of a product manager
- cynical product manager
- how to interview a product manager
- new product manager what to do first
- responsibilities software product management
Stalker Searches – How Dare You Try to “Out” the Cranky Product Manager!?!
- “real name” “cranky product manager”
- anna smith product manager
- dysfunctosoft
- is cranky product manager named ….
- where does the cranky product manager work
{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }
I particularly like: all of the responsibility and none of the authority.
I personally searched: All the blame and none of the credit…. and here I am
http://business-vs-technology.blogspot.com
So nice to know that we’re beloved.
So CPM, that’s a pretty good list. However, it sure looks like a lot of those searches are by non-product managers trying to get more information. If the searches were being done by working product managers, I would have expected to see things more along the lines of:
1. Save me I’m drowning
2. How to get more respect than the QA folks
3. Why is everyone else getting promoted, but not me.
and my personal favorite…
4. All of the responsibility and all of the blame.
- Dr. Jim Anderson
Blue Elephant Consulting
http://itproductmanagement.blogspot.com/
I’m wondering why “why the british suck” points to your blog? (I’m british)
Adrian,
The Cranky Product Manager suspects the following post explains “why the british suck” matches:
http://www.crankypm.com/crankypm/2006/08/british-terrori.html
I just found your blog yesterday and I think you are right on in your postings. The thing is, I still want to be a Product (NOT Project) Manager at a tech company. I guess that makes me strange indeed.
For those that searched “new product manager what to do first”, I say that until you understand what this job is about, don’t take it on.
hilarious… I got here searching for #1
“product managers are idiots”
I’ve been in the software industry for 15 years, worked for 8 different companies and I’ve only worked with ONE product manager in my entire career (20+ product managers) who actually had a handle on what product management was all about. And she took the time to research and understand the business landscape, what our competitors were doing and what we needed to do LONG-TERM (and short) to shore up our position in the market.
Sorry folks, product managers are not popular with me. It’s one of the most important positions in any company developing and selling a product. Yet companies consistently put the wrong people in that position.
I hate you all :-)
(I’m using the word “hate” here very loosely – tongue-in-cheek; relax)