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All You Ever Wanted To Know About The Cranky Product Manager (well, not quite)

January 21, 2009

Yo, the Cranky Product Manager has a few loose ends to clear up.  Questions from readers that have gone unanswered, things the CPM promised to do but forgot about, things she meant to do, … that type of thing. First off, the Cranky Product Manager needs to send a shout-out to cartoonist extraordinaire and human [...]

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Twitter Experiment

October 21, 2008

OK, the Cranky Product Manager heard that all the Cool Kids are doing this thing called “Twitter” which involves sending “tweets” and getting a phone full of SMSs with critical information, such as what your BFF ate for breakfast that morning. So, in an effort to recapture her already-spent youth and waste even MORE time [...]

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Oooh la la for Alltop

October 16, 2008

Hey you!  Look over there —-> You will notice there is a fantastically red and circular badge-thingy over there on the right, emblazoned with the name “Alltop.” YES, the Alltop Gods on Mount Olympus — of which the hunky Guy Kawasaki is the numero uno Big God (and YES, the Cranky Product Manager does think [...]

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Any Questions for the Cranky Product Manager?

September 25, 2008

Too lazy to write a post today, so the Cranky Product Manager is going to resort to a stupid, tired blogular gimick. She’s going to open the floor to reader questions.   Is there something you’re dying to know about the CPM?  Something you truly want her uncensored opinion on? Then make a comment on [...]

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Resuming Our Regularly Scheduled Cranky Programming

September 20, 2008

The Cranky Product Manager has finished moving this blog from Typepad to WordPress.  Yippee!  (and there was much rejoicing.) The RSS Feed seems to be working any everything. Joy to the nth power. The Cranky Product Manager thanks Dr. Jim of The Accidental Product Manager blog for his migration assistance. *** Do the CPM a [...]

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WARNING: Website Host Switch This Week

September 16, 2008

Hey there, breaking character here.  This is the author of the blog. I’m going to move this website from  Typepad to self-installed WordPress in the next day or two.  For you, the benefits will be a better looking Cranky Product Manager website and hopefully some extra functionality down the road. And the URLs for the [...]

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Delivering Sub-optimal Product/Blog News

September 5, 2008
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About Readers of This Here Blog

September 4, 2008

Like most product managers, the Cranky Product Manager is obsessed with any hard customer data that she can get her hands on.  So, a while back, she started up a page on Facebook to hopefully learn a bit more about you.  It was really fun. No, not in the Disney Land rollercoaster WOW kind of way but in the [...]

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Finally, an Award for a Product Manager.

September 1, 2008

The Cranky Product Manager, like most good product managers, usually wins nothing. Absolutely nothing. OK, that’s a lie. As a wee lass in grammar school, the Cranky Product Manager ”won” an immense collection green “participant” and “good sport” ribbons.  In any prepubescent contest — be it the broad jump, the spelling bee, or the flexed arm hang — you [...]

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Any Cartoonists Out There?

August 26, 2008

The Cranky Product Manager wants to know… are any of you cartoonists? If so, maybe you could whip up a drawing of each of the "The 6 Types of Engineers" that could accompany the post of the same name? In return, the Cranky Product Manager will give you a big virtual hug, plus a big [...]

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