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The PM Profession

Product Management, Czech Style

June 21, 2010

Ah, Prague.  How fondly the Cranky Product Manager remembers you.  Such a beautiful city. Such wonderful espresso. Such fantastic Czech beer. Plus amazing architecture. *sigh* And even better, Prague is where the Cranky Product Manager first learned the wicked awesome English word defenestration, as in “the defenestration of hotshot engineers is tempting for most product [...]

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Happy Birthday to Me

June 11, 2010

Yep, the Cranky Product Manager has been creeping around the blog-o-sphere for FOUR years now. Check out the very first post. Four years. That’s a long time.  Don’t know whether to celebrate or cry.   Probably cry.  Because even though this blog has been around long enough to graduate from college, it’s still living at [...]

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A Blog You Should Read: Ribbonfarm

June 7, 2010

Call the Cranky Product Manager a laggard or whatever. But she has only just learned about the excellent blog, Ribbonfarm, by Venkatesh Rao. It is a blog about “business and innovation and stuff,” and the Cranky Product Manager just spent the evening digging through its archives. This blog gets the Cranky PM’s thumbs-up because: 1) [...]

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Quick Clarification and How to Convince Your Boss to Get You Training

June 3, 2010

Just wanted to clarify the Cranky Product Manager’s previous post on training. The Cranky Product Manager is NOT against training for product managers.  Not at all. In fact, she HEARTS training, and any effort product professionals make to improve their skills and knowledge.  There are some really great classes out there! (see note 1) It’s [...]

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No Excuses Product Management (Part 2)- Stop Whining About Training

June 1, 2010

In this post, The Cranky Product Manager continues her vendetta against all those sniveling product managers who trot out pathetic excuses for NOT DOING THEIR FREAKIN’ JOBS. This is Part 2 of here NO EXCUSES PRODUCT MANAGEMENT series.  Enjoy Part 1 here.  There will be at least parts 3 and 4 (and who knows, maybe [...]

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No Excuses Product Management (Part 1)

May 28, 2010

As the Esteemed Crankerati already know, the Cranky Product Manager has been creeping around the software product management universe for quite some time.  Long enough that perhaps she should replace her blog’s masthead photo with a less youthful and more saggy derriere. In that extended time, the Cranky Product Manager has encountered LOTS of product [...]

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Warning Signs That Your New Product Management Job is Going to Suck

May 19, 2010

The Cranky Product Manager hopes your new Product Management job doesn’t suck. Truly. Yeah for you! You landed a new product management job in a s#!+hole of an economy! You must be WICKED AWESOME to accomplish such a feat! The Cranky Product Manager applauds you! But because the Cranky Product Manager is, well, the CRANKY [...]

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Parenting and Product Management

April 19, 2010

The Cranky Product Manager was just reading Rich Mironov’s The Art of Product Management.  Good reads.  Easy, breezy.  Informative yet FUN essays about product management.  Kind of like this blog. Except it is better written. And not cranky. And optimistic and hopeful.  And more educational. And by someone who knows a lot more about Product [...]

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Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-04-07

April 7, 2010

Highest paid product manager ever? http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20001440-265.html?tag=nl.e703. #prodmgmt Where’s MY $15 mil? # New cranky post! Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 2010-03-31 – http://crankypm.com/?p=1516 #prodmgmt # CrankyPM used to think an MBA didn’t matter to #prodmgmt She’s now changing her stance. Get an MBA, or be a former entrepreneur. # The Cranky PM’s official study [...]

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The (ahem) "Art" of Pricing

March 30, 2010

A reader asks: “Cranky Product Manager, I adore you and worship you as a fount of wisdom. Plus I wish I looked as good as you do in a pair of jeans and high heals.  Oh, your Crankiness, can you please enlighten me on the art of pricing?” At the risk of misinterpreting, the Cranky [...]

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