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By: Saeed vs. Cranky PM: Fight! « On Product Management

Saeed vs. Cranky PM: Fight! « On Product Management — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:22:48 +0000

[...] reading some of the interchange, one reader, John, on Cranky’s blog left the following comment. Is it just me or does anyone else want to see the celebrity deathmatch episode with CPM vs Saeed? [...]

By: Building Towards a Strategic Roadmap — Strategic Product Manager

Building Towards a Strategic Roadmap — Strategic Product Manager — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:18:43 +0000

[...] that has lost its meaning like innovation, collaboration and communication. Here is great line from The Cranky Product Manager to put this into perspective for you: EVERYONE claiming they are strategic. Will NO [...]

By: Saeed Khan

Saeed Khan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:54:27 +0000

@John,

The deathmatch has been defined. See http://onproductmanagement.net/2009/01/17/saeed-vs-cranky-pm-fight/ for more details.

Saeed

By: Cranky Product Mgr

Cranky Product Mgr — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:29:49 +0000

New blog post: 10 Things That Piss Off the Cranky Product Manager http://tinyurl.com/ayr7de

By: Larry McKeogh

Larry McKeogh — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:19:03 +0000

#8 – I hate doing someone else’s job, but this is better than viewing the carnage an uninformed marketeer can do to a product. Providing their cheat sheet and product data info eliminates this and gets a few dinners in return.

# 9 used to be annoying until virtual platforms came into wider usage. Now it is only a mild nit intermittently.

By: Victor Velasquez

Victor Velasquez — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:48:25 +0000

#2 I agree, there is a big difference between doing something strategic or tactical. The same problem occurs when we try to define the Unique Value Proposition of a Software Product. Very often we refer it as Unique Sales Points. Again, Strategy versus Tactic.

I am passing on this list to our software developers in Hermosillo… so perhaps they can give their point of view too.

By: John

John — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:44:18 +0000

Is it just me or does anyone else want to see the celebrity deathmatch episode with CPM vs Saeed? CPM, you probably want to remove the bite plate for that.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:22:55 +0000

#2: I know a person that say he’s in charge of tactical marketing. He’s the only guy I know who ever used the word tactical to describe something that he is doing.

#9: We still have a customer or two that just MUST have our products tested on Windows 95. Go figure.

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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:10:20 +0000

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By: Paco

Paco — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:47:38 +0000

My answer to #5:

“I’ll answer that just as soon as you calculate our company’s ROI for employing you. Please back-up your answer with hard numbers from sales. And, given these difficult economic times, I hope it’s a positive number.”

And, yep, did #10 and hated the hellz out of it. Especially when the “Dysfunctosoft” I worked for at the time had a database app for tracking that stuff, and it was designed back when the company mainly had client-server products while we had 3-tier web architecture. Took a painfully long time for the little troll who managed that app to *finally* accomodate 3-tier products.

A more recent company I worked at had really bizarrely written platform support lists – things categorized in ways that just didn’t make sense. I submitted rewrites for my products to the content publishing team for the company website, and lo-and-behold they mangled them before putting them online. When I confronted them about it, it turns out they really had no idea what the content meant, but they were adamant that they need to format everything in the same layout “that we’ve always used”. So, visually, they liked their rewrites better than mine because it looked more like the content for the other products that way.

*sigh*

I know it’s awfully nerdy, but kinda makes me wish I worked in a company run by Klingons so head-smacks and stare-downs would be acceptable. And who doesn’t like to wear all-leather business attire?… OK, I’m digressing…