by The Cranky Product Manager on August 13, 2010
in Analysts
Oh goodness. The Cranky Product Manager realizes that this April Fool's send-up of technology analysts has been creeping around the Internet for well over a year. But, alas, this is the first time she saw it.
Please read. Very funny stuff. It's about Harvester Research's launch of ForceSales.com, the industry's first Analyst-as-a-Service (Aaas) offering.
The Cranky Product Manager especially likes the Harvester frameworks: the Harvester Fave, the Harvester Magic Kingdom , and the Harvester Market Dream Cycle.
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know the Cranky Product Manager thinks technology analysts (also known as Forest Rangers and Gardeners on this here blog) are GENERALLY (note 1) coin-operated ho-bags. (See here and here.)
So you can appreciate the Cranky Product Manager’s consternation when confronted with Forrester’s Agile survey. It’s about the effect of Agile development on the structure and operations of tech companies.
The Cranky Product Manager is very interested in this topic. Very.
So, as much as this request makes the Cranky Product Manager feel disgusting/dirty/loathsome/repugnant/appalled with herself, she’s gonna ask you all to head over and take Forrester’s Agile Survey.
‘Cuz maybe then the Forest Rangers will share the results with her, even though she has no access to their research. And even though she constantly maligns their good name. (hah! right!)
Because then, maybe, she’d have more fodder for more cranky posts on Agile.
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Note 1: Observe that the Cranky Product Manager said GENERALLY. No doubt, there are analysts that are NOT coin-operated. But they are probably still ho-bags.
