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January 2012 (1)
- 26: Why Sales Bitches About Product Management & What to Do About It (41)
December 2011 (1)
- 12: The Brain of a Sales Droid – A Visual Guide (98)
November 2011 (2)
- 28: What Do Five-Year Olds and Product Managers Have In Common? (26)
- 22: How Did They Survive While the Cranky PM Was on Maternity Leave? (41)
July 2011 (1)
- 29: Not Dead, Just Wearing Sweatpants and Spit-up. Every. Single. Day. (17)
April 2011 (1)
- 25: Death of a Product Manager (34)
March 2011 (2)
- 15: Guest Post from a CodeBoy: The Five Stages of Debugging (75)
- 15: That Code Boy Hath No Shame (17)
January 2011 (2)
- 31: The High Cost of Product Line Complexity (plus Proof the Cranky Product Manager is Female) (38)
- 21: Product Management Haiku, Redux (30)
December 2010 (5)
- 21: FINAL CHAPTER (part 6): World’s Most Generic Product Management Interview (18)
- 20: Part 5: World’s Most Generic Product Management Interview (6)
- 17: Part 4: The World’s Most Generic Product Management Interview (12)
- 06: CrankyPM Mugs Make the Best Christmas Gifts (7)
- 02: CRANKY CARTOONS: THE GENERIC PRODUCT MANAGEMENT INTERVIEW (PART 3) (17)
November 2010 (2)
- 15: Cranky Cartoons: The Generic Product Management Interview (parts 1 & 2) (45)
- 05: From the Archives: That “All the Responsibility, None of the Authority” Saying (14)
October 2010 (3)
- 27: How to Be a Jackass Product Manager in Nine Easy Steps (82)
- 18: Sexism in the Software Industry, as Encountered by the Cranky Product Manager (106)
- 13: Biz of Software 2010, Women In Software & Frat House “Culture” (90)
September 2010 (1)
- 01: From the Archives: Scrum This! (26)
August 2010 (4)
- 25: Why the USP for Every Technical Product Sounds the Same (66)
- 17: B-School and the Missing Product (74)
- 13: Harvester Research and Analyst 2.0 (7)
- 12: No Excuses Product Management (Part 3): I Have No Market Data (34)
June 2010 (5)
- 21: Product Management, Czech Style (15)
- 11: Happy Birthday to Me (10)
- 07: A Blog You Should Read: Ribbonfarm (5)
- 03: Quick Clarification and How to Convince Your Boss to Get You Training (22)
- 01: No Excuses Product Management (Part 2)- Stop Whining About Training (43)
May 2010 (3)
- 28: No Excuses Product Management (Part 1) (25)
- 19: Warning Signs That Your New Product Management Job is Going to Suck (36)
- 05: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-05-05 (8)
April 2010 (5)
- 28: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-04-28 (0)
- 21: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-04-21 (1)
- 19: Parenting and Product Management (22)
- 14: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-04-14 (0)
- 07: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-04-07 (3)
March 2010 (8)
- 31: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-03-31 (2)
- 30: The (ahem) "Art" of Pricing (24)
- 24: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-03-24 (2)
- 20: Cranky Tweets for Week ending 3/20/2010 (5)
- 13: Cranky Tweets for Week Ending 3/13/2010 (1)
- 05: The Cranky PM on “Been There, Done That” (11)
- 04: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 3/4/2010 (4)
- 02: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-03-02 (1)
February 2010 (6)
- 23: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-02-23 (0)
- 23: A Prototype for the Worst Positioning Statement Ever (32)
- 16: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-02-16 (1)
- 09: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-02-09 (4)
- 05: Call for Nominations: Worst Product & Company Descriptions (33)
- 02: Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-02-02 (0)
January 2010 (2)
- 22: Power Post #2: Hoarding Features & Products (17)
- 22: Power Post: Quickie Observations on Life in the Software Industry (17)
November 2009 (5)
- 30: Fantabulous Christmas Gifts for Product Managers (12)
- 24: VOTE FOR THE CRANKY PRODUCT MANAGER (11)
- 16: Translation of The Cranky Product Manager (24)
- 06: It Ain’t Happening. Sorry. (14)
- 02: Need Your Help (Biz of SW 2009) (9)
October 2009 (1)
- 20: The Cranky Product Manager Sez Go Big or Go Home (20)
September 2009 (2)
- 29: 10 Things The Cranky Product Manager Has Learned About Product Management (35)
- 03: The Cranky Product Manager Speaks (19)
August 2009 (1)
- 05: Guest Post: The Cranky Analyst Wants Everyone To Stop Yelling At Each Other (15)
July 2009 (3)
- 15: Guest Post: The Cranky Marketer Part 3 – The Problem with Product Management (30)
- 02: [Guest Post] Death to Funnel Hawks (10)
- 01: Defending the CPM’s Fictional Name (13)
June 2009 (5)
- 28: I blame the the Product Manager (10)
- 15: Happy Birthday to Me (11)
- 12: How Product Marketers Are Like Bad Real Estate Agents (15)
- 03: The Enlightened Stupid Marketer (a marvelous video) (5)
- 02: If a PR / Marcom Weenie Wrote This Blog (14)
May 2009 (1)
- 19: Is There Anything as Predictable as a Sales Droid? (20)
April 2009 (3)
- 23: Return of the Product Management Haiku (now with extra fun) (44)
- 15: The Cranky Product Manager bitchslaps the Cranky Marketer (17)
- 01: Guest Post: The Cranky Engineer Responds to a PRD (16)
March 2009 (7)
- 30: Guest Post: The Cranky Sales Engineer on how to get R-E-S-P-E-C-T (10)
- 26: Guest Post: The Cranky Marketer Goes Off – Part Deux (38)
- 23: Guest Post: The Cranky Marketer Goes Off (Part 1) (6)
- 17: Guest Post: The Cranky Sales Engineer Shares Sales Secrets (13)
- 16: To the Agile Community – WTF is wrong with you? (44)
- 06: Dilbert for Product Managers (19)
- 02: Book Review: The Product Manager’s Desk Reference (7)
February 2009 (16)
- 25: Help Your Fellow Product Managers / Product Marketers Find Jobs (18)
- 24: One Funny Dude (6)
- 23: Guest Post: The Cranky Sales Engineer Reports from the Front … of the Room (8)
- 20: Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Four (5)
- 20: Guest Post: The Cranky Sales Engineer Weighs in on Career Change (8)
- 19: Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Three (5)
- 18: Video – You Chose Product Marketing, Deal With It! (22)
- 17: Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager – Part Two (15)
- 16: New Cranky Mug Design (4)
- 16: Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager – Part One (21)
- 12: How Vaporware Happens (9)
- 11: Please Welcome the Cranky Sales Engineer (3)
- 09: The Veteran Software Engineer: Hard Proof At Last (4)
- 06: Guest Post: The Cranky Test for Agile Product Managers (3)
- 04: The Cranky Product Manager Responds to the Cranky Sales Engineer – Part 2 (12)
- 02: The Cranky Product Manager Responds to the Cranky Sales Engineer – Part 1 (13)
January 2009 (11)
- 29: Guest Post: The Cranky Sales Engineer on Sales Training (16)
- 27: Guest Post: This is NOT a Democracy (11)
- 26: Take the Forest Ranger Agile Survey (2)
- 23: Guest Post: A Journey to the Dark Side – How a Cranky Engineer Became a Product Manager (4)
- 21: All You Ever Wanted To Know About The Cranky Product Manager (well, not quite) (6)
- 19: Business Guys on Business Trips (2)
- 18: Help Create the Short-list for the Cranky Product Manager’s Upcoming PM Training Survey (14)
- 15: On Engineering Meetings (redux) (11)
- 12: 10 Things That Piss Off the Cranky Product Manager (25)
- 08: Be the CEO of your product. Be the CEO of your own career. (13)
- 05: Divine Rules for Product Managers #3: On Helping the Press with Product Reviews (2)
December 2008 (13)
- 31: Divine Rules for Product Managers #2: On Dealing With Unreasonable Customer Demands (11)
- 29: Divine Rules for Product Managers #1: Prepping for Engineering Meetings (15)
- 24: Caption Contest Winners: 7 Types of Software Engineers (3)
- 23: Who Me? Biased? (More on Product Management Certification) (10)
- 22: Wicked Fun Game Highlighting the Never-Ending Battle Between Product Management and Development (5)
- 20: Survey Results: Product Management Certification (9)
- 18: The 5 Types of Beta Testing Programs and Why 4 of Them Suck (22)
- 18: PM Certification Survey Closes 12/19 midnight (0)
- 10: Survey: Scam or Shrewd Move? Certification for Product Managers (18)
- 05: Check out the Business of Software Social Network (0)
- 04: The Cranky Product Manager never fails to disappoint, plus a blog you should read (3)
- 02: Why it doesn’t matter where Product Management lives in the organization (23)
- 01: Gift Ideas for Product Managers (11)
November 2008 (3)
- 18: Badness All Around (16)
- 05: Reminder! Caption Contest Ends midnight Nov. 7! (1)
- 05: WTF Refactoring (12)
October 2008 (14)
- 29: Caption Contest: The Clockwork Mouse (The Seven Types of Software Engineers) (16)
- 29: Caption Contest: The Maverick (The Seven Types of Software Engineers) (10)
- 29: Caption Contest: Offshore (The Seven Types of Software Engineers) (11)
- 29: Caption Contest: The Teflon-gineer (The Seven Types of Software Engineers) (13)
- 29: Caption Contest: The Great One (The Seven Types of Software Engineers) (11)
- 29: Caption Contest: The Hotshot (The Seven Types of Software Engineers) (11)
- 29: Caption Contest! (7 Types of Engineers) (7)
- 29: Caption Contest: The Veteran (The Seven Types of Software Engineers) (15)
- 23: Customer Self Sabotage (5)
- 21: Twitter Experiment (0)
- 16: Oooh la la for Alltop (0)
- 10: Poll Results: Software Development Methodologies (Agile vs Waterfall) (9)
- 06: The Engineering VP Who Couldn’t “Get” Product Positioning (15)
- 02: Following Up: Customer Advisory Groups (4)
September 2008 (12)
- 30: On Customer Advisory Groups (9)
- 25: Any Questions for the Cranky Product Manager? (15)
- 23: Heresy Against the Church of Agile Software Development (21)
- 20: Resuming Our Regularly Scheduled Cranky Programming (1)
- 16: WARNING: Website Host Switch This Week (1)
- 15: A Reader Responds to “Six Types of Engineers” (2)
- 12: POLL: Agile vs. Waterfall Software Development (3)
- 09: Top 10 Reasons Why the Cranky Product Manager Would Make a Good Vice Presidential Candidate (9)
- 05: Delivering Sub-optimal Product/Blog News (8)
- 04: About Readers of This Here Blog (4)
- 02: Scrum THIS (21)
- 01: Finally, an Award for a Product Manager. (2)
August 2008 (4)
- 26: Any Cartoonists Out There? (3)
- 23: The 6 Types of Software Engineers: Identification, Care and Feeding (87)
- 18: Favorite Google Searches (6)
- 05: Confess Your Sins: Buzzword Abuse (16)
July 2008 (4)
- 31: Who ARE you people, anyway? (10)
- 29: Three Things The CPM Doesn’t Want to Hear (5)
- 22: Shameless Self-Promotion (2)
- 04: Shameless Begging (9)
June 2008 (2)
- 23: Tell the Cranky Product Manager (3)
- 07: A Parable on Fake Release Dates (2)
May 2008 (1)
- 06: The Reality of Maternity and Paternity in the Software Industry (7)
April 2008 (2)
- 28: FAD: The Methodology to End All Methodologies (4)
- 14: Stage 4 Product Proliferation (11)
January 2008 (1)
- 25: Persona Non Grata (12)
November 2007 (3)
- 21: Product Management Haiku (22)
- 16: Plugs Ahoy (0)
- 12: Marketing Geniuses & Marketing Fads (7)
October 2007 (1)
- 23: How to Get the Respect of Development (4)
August 2007 (3)
- 28: Getting Demonstrative at Trade Shows (4)
- 11: Steve Johnson for President (5)
- 08: How to Get Hired By The Cranky Product Manager (0)
July 2007 (2)
- 25: Seeking Gems in a Sea of Manure (7)
- 15: Introducing the 1.0 Version (7)
May 2007 (1)
- 29: The Value of an MBA in Product Management (19)
April 2007 (2)
- 19: So You Think “Agile” Methodologies Exempt You From Product Management (14)
- 18: Thanks for Sharing Your Secret Moves (0)
March 2007 (1)
- 31: Share Your Secret Moves (13)
February 2007 (1)
- 06: Someone Has Been Spying on The Cranky Product Manager (2)
January 2007 (2)
- 28: A Day in the Life of the Cranky Product Manager (13)
- 09: The Joy of Sales Kickoff (14)
December 2006 (1)
- 08: 87 Cents on the Dollar (2)
November 2006 (3)
- 20: The IT Awards Show (2)
- 08: That “All the Responsibility but No Authority” Saying (14)
- 07: This is Fiction. Get it? (4)
August 2006 (6)
- 28: Why the Cranky Product Manager Really (Honestly) Loves Product Management (2)
- 18: Cranky Observation of the Day: On So-Called Visionaries (6)
- 11: British Terrorists, You Suck (4)
- 10: Bed Bug Aftermath (2)
- 08: The Bed Bug Situation (3)
- 01: Streetwalkers in Disguise (2)
July 2006 (2)
- 17: The Joy of the Bug Scrub (3)
- 12: The Cranky Backside (0)
June 2006 (3)
- 29: How to Piss Off Development in a Really Big Way (4)
- 20: The Only Known Depiction of a Product Manager in a Major Motion Picture (1)
- 11: Who is the Cranky Product Manager? (6)

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