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The Brain of a Sales Droid – A Visual Guide

December 12, 2011

Behold, a visual guide to the inside of a SalesDroid’s brain, or more specifically, an Enterprise Software SalesDroid’s brain, as viewed from Product Management.  Yes, the lack of artistic merit in this drawing is profoundly pitiful.  Thank goodness the Cranky Product Manager has a day job. If you receive posts via email, you probably didn’t [...]

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What Do Five-Year Olds and Product Managers Have In Common?

November 28, 2011

Seems like everyone in the Product Management blog-o-universe just loves to chat about where Product Management should report in the organization.  (Sorry, I don’t have time to provide the links right now,… maybe someone can provide some in the comments?) Unsurprisingly, among us Product Management weenies of the world, the overwhelming consensus that Product Management should [...]

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How Did They Survive While the Cranky PM Was on Maternity Leave?

November 22, 2011

The Cranky Product Manager has returned from the land of sweatpants and spit-up (aka maternity leaave), and is now back at Dysfunctosoft three days a week. She’s still sleep deprived and cranky, but is enjoying the conversations with adults and the astonishing luxury of going to the bathroom BY HERSELF IN PEACE without someone having [...]

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Not Dead, Just Wearing Sweatpants and Spit-up. Every. Single. Day.

July 29, 2011

Please be informed that the Cranky Product Manager is not dead, not stuck under something heavy, and has not (yet) given up the fine art of blogging. Her recent absence can be explained: Kids. Or rather, a new kid. Kid #2, to be exact. And apparently the Cranky Product Manager pissed off the universe by [...]

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Death of a Product Manager

April 25, 2011

There will be no chuckles or laughs in this post.   Why?  Because it is about a serious topic – how a DECENT company deals with the death of one of its employees. The Cranky Product Manager has a bit of first-hand experience here. It was long ago, but the wounds are still fresh.   Let’s [...]

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Guest Post from a CodeBoy: The Five Stages of Debugging

March 15, 2011

 In her previous post, the Cranky Product Manager unloaded on Code Boys & Grils who don’t fix their damn bugs.  She dropped the eff bomb and everything. Indeed! This post is the flip side. The developer’s point of view when faced with a nasty bug.  And it’s an extremely well-written piece by a Code Boy [...]

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That Code Boy Hath No Shame

March 15, 2011

The Cranky Product Manager has actually not been so cranky lately.  She’s started a job at a spankin’ brand new startup and for the first time in her professional life is part of a team – that for the moment, anyway – seems free of major dysfunction!  OMFG!   She has a major crush on [...]

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The High Cost of Product Line Complexity (plus Proof the Cranky Product Manager is Female)

January 31, 2011

This cranky post is sponsored by Quantum Whisper.  They are wicked awesome because they pay me and because they link customer feedback to your backlog. ————– Every now and then the Cranky Product Manager learns that some member of the Crankerati is theorizing that she is not really a women, but is in fact a hot [...]

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Product Management Haiku, Redux

January 21, 2011

This post is sponsored by Quantum Whisper. The Cranky PM loves them because 1) they pay her, and 2) they are maestros of the agile product management tango. ——————— In their spare time, the Product Management Crankerati just LOVE writing haikus. Check it: here (Pivotal PM), and here (previous Cranky PM post), and here (Product Management Meets [...]

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FINAL CHAPTER (part 6): World’s Most Generic Product Management Interview

December 21, 2010

Quantum Whisper was kind enough to supply the Cranky PM with expensive lattes this month.  They are a wicked awesome company that links customer feedback to your backlog.  Crank-tastic! ———– At LONG LAST, the World’s Most Generic Product Management Interview wraps up. The Cranky Product Manager will just say that creating these videos is a lot [...]

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