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Divine Rules for Product Managers #1: Prepping for Engineering Meetings

December 29, 2008

The Cranky Product Manager had a religious experience recently, where the gods of enterprise software came to her in a vision and presented her with the Laws of Product Management. Being gods, they instructed her to share these sacred Laws with y’all.  The Cranky Product Manager shall post each Law in a separate post. Eventually, [...]

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Caption Contest Winners: 7 Types of Software Engineers

December 24, 2008

At long last, the Cranky Product Manager is posting the winning captions for the “7 Types of Software Engineers” cartoons!!!! Whoo hoo. Sorry about the delay.  It’s just a big frakin hassle to put captions on cartoons and create a Cafe Press store — all so the Cranky Product Manager can order some mugs with pictures [...]

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Wicked Fun Game Highlighting the Never-Ending Battle Between Product Management and Development

December 22, 2008

The Cranky Product Manager has a Christmas present for you.   No, it’s not something from her recommended “Wicked Awesome Presents for Product Managers” list, alas. (Buy your favorite PM a present now! Last day for shipping). Nay, it’s a fantastic board game – a classic, with a new twist. It will give you hours [...]

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Reminder! Caption Contest Ends midnight Nov. 7!

November 5, 2008

Just TWO days left to leave your funniest caption attempt on each of the “7 Types of Engineers” comics.  Don’t lose out on your chance for a fantabulous coffee mug featuring your caption, courtesy of the Cranky Product Manager. And check out the captions that have already been submitted. Some are FRAKING hilarious.

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WTF Refactoring

November 5, 2008

Scene: War Room. 2 days until Code Freeze. LEAD DEVELOPER: So, unfortunately, we’re going to have to pull FavoriteFeature out of the release in order to meet the schedule. THE CRANKY PRODUCT MANAGER: Huh? That feature’s been in the product for 3 releases now. Customers love it. Why do we have to pull it? LEAD [...]

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Caption Contest: The Clockwork Mouse (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Reader Eric submitted this addendum to the original “The 6 Types of Software Engineer.” The Cranky Product Manager liked it so much, she changed the name of the series to “7 Types of Software Engineers.” Submit captions for this cartoon of “The Clockwork Mouse” in this post’s comments. And don’t forget to submit captions for [...]

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Caption Contest: The Maverick (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Submit captions for this cartoon of “The Moverick” in this post’s comments.  And don’t forget to submit captions for the other Software Engineer Types as well… The Maverick The Maverick will do your feature IF he can do it in Ruby on Rails. Or Haskell. Or Python. Or <other hot new language that his peers [...]

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Caption Contest: Offshore (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Submit captions for this cartoon of “Offshore” in this post’s comments. And don’t forget to submit captions for the other Software Engineer Types as well… Offshore Where are these guys, anyway, and what time is it there? Who knows; you always have to count the time difference on your fingers. But anyway, they seem very [...]

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Caption Contest: The Teflon-gineer (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Submit captions for this cartoon of “The Teflong-gineer” in this post’s comments.  And don’t forget to submit captions for the other Software Engineer Types as well… The Teflon-gineer The Teflon-gineer will do anything to reduce his work. If you’ve asked for a sports car, this engineer will try his/her damnedest to meet your requirements with [...]

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Caption Contest: The Great One (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Submit captions for this cartoon of “The Great One” in this post’s comments. And don’t forget to submit captions for the other Software Engineer Types as well… The Great One Where did this engineer come from, and can you have five more of him? Distinguishing Characteristics: Always delivers on schedule, even when unforeseen code bottlenecks [...]

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