The Cranky PM loves Dilbert. Shocking, isn’t it?
As a gift to the Internets (and to anyone making a speech about product management), help the Cranky Product Manager create a list of links to Dilbert cartoons* that are funny to product management types.
Untack those comics from your cubicle wall, look at the dates, and find them in this multi-year archive of the black & white Dilberts. (Alas, the CPM can’t find an archive of the Sunday color Dilberts. Anyone know where they are?) Then, post the link in the comments. Please?
Here’s the CPM’s partial list. Please help her complete it.
Requirements & Development
- March 21, 2003 – “I’ll design the system as soon as you give me the requirements.”
- March 22, 2003 – “I can’t start the project because the user won’t give me his requirements.”
- November 26, 2007 – “We’re going to try something called Agile Programming.”
- September 9, 2007 – “Is our new service Web 1.0 or Web 2.0?” (alas, no link since it’s a Sunday comic)
- November 28, 2006 - Impossible engineering problem
- Aprril 20, 2007 – Dilbert develops the iPod “killer”
Sales
- September 4, 2006 – “If I buy this, how can I be sure you won’t come out with a new version next week?”
- January 9, 2007 – Dilbert becomes a sales engineer.
- January 11, 2007 – Dilbert the sales engineer. “I might have promised them a few extra features.”
- Feb 3, 2006 & Feb 4, 2006 – Dilbert accompanies Alan on a Sales Call.
Marketing
- September 13, 2007 – Dilbert on Marketing. “We can’t compete on price, quality, features or services. That leaves fraud, which I’d like you to call marketing.”
* The CPM will not be posting the actual comics, since that’s a copyright violation, you ingrates with no respect for the work of artistes.
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I am a spazz at HTML (I am a hardware guy, so cut me some slack) but this one resonated:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2005/12/19&name=Dilbert
12/19/2005
“September 9, 2007 – “Is our new service Web 1.0 or Web 2.0?” (alas, no link since it’s a Sunday comic) ”
I love that one – I’ve had it on my wall for a long time. Google is your friend: http://mashable.com/2007/09/09/dilbert-does-web-20/
I’m confused, why not link to the original archive from Scott Adams’ own which has the full archive of Sunday and Weekday strips back 20 years? Which includes the 9 September 2007 strip as well:
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-09-09/
Yeah, that bit of html didn’t go so well – but you get my point. :)
you can text search on dilbert archives here
that allows to find that nice one i used to have as wallpaper.
can be used to un-cover a couple of gems like http://www.s-anand.net/dilbert.html#20030110
reading post by @CrankyPM – Dilbert for Product Managers http://bit.ly/13222h
This archive isn’t searchable but its complete (since 2001), including both the b&w + color ones.
The more “official” thing to do though may be to use the Scott Adams links as noted in a prior comment.
http://www.geek.nl/pics/dilbert-arch/
A great new blog post by @crankypm – http://tinyurl.com/b8b5n8
New blog post: Dilbert for Product Managers http://tinyurl.com/b8b5n8
RT @crankypm: New blog post: Dilbert for Product Managers http://tinyurl.com/b8b5n8
Dag, I can’t remember when my favorite one was published – the one where Dilbert goes to the Marketing dept and they’re having unicorn for lunch. Anyone? Anyone?
Anyway, another one I enjoy:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-12-06/
CPM: I love it that you are posting Dilbert links, because I’ve told people that you are “the Dilbert of the 2000′s.” Just like Scott Adams, your observations are so spot-on that we’re all sure that you work at our company. (For me, it was one of your tweets about SKO!)
I like http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-12-06/ for marketing. Introducing the Director of Marketecture: “He’s in charge of preventing customers from realizing what they’re buying.”
Feb 4, 2006 – awesome. My alltime fave.
Help the Cranky Product Manager create a list of links to Dilbert cartoons that are funny to product management types: http://is.gd/nboy
Reading some funny product manager Dilbert cartoons. http://tinyurl.com/b8b5n8
I like this one:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2003/1/10&name=Dilbert
@crankypm great collection of Dilbert cartoons related to marketing and sales …lol http://tinyurl.com/b8b5n8
Creative sales team extension and a freemium model helps Autovirt meet a challenging economy http://tinyurl.com/b8b5n8