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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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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 Week ending 3/20/2010

March 20, 2010

The Silicon Valley weather is so wonderful today that even the cranky product manager is having difficulty being cranky…. Let’s start a vicious rumor – that @TondinBanks is the “real” crankypm. He sounds like it, anyway. 11:35 AM Mar 17th via web RT @chadmyers @crankypm like museums of stupid inventions from late 1800′s, in 100 [...]

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Cranky Tweets for Week Ending 3/13/2010

March 13, 2010

The Cranky Product Manager will see you all at P-Camp Silicon Valley tomorrow! #prodmgmt RT narahari @crankypm did you already tell folks that a Beta should have participants? – its not a Beta just because you did PR #prodmgmt Latest: Hint #3 for dumb-ass PMs: if you’re going to have a Beta, maybe you should [...]

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The Cranky PM on “Been There, Done That”

March 5, 2010

The following cartoon has been shamelessly republished from Shreyas Doshi’s excellent “How to Get that Next PM Job” presentation to the Silicon Valley Product Management Association.  Many years ago, during her first month at DysfunctoSoft, the Cranky Product Manager had this EXACT argument with the Engineering Manager for DysfunctoCrank: It was years ago, but to [...]

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Cranky Tweets for the Week Ending 3/4/2010

March 4, 2010

Note 2 CEO: Don’t use #prodmgmt as a dumping ground for ur incompetent buddies that sales/mktg/support/dev tried to fire. @Jim_Holland – ?!?!?!??!?! wow. The crankypm is against demo-pimposity for PMs, but seriously LEARN TO USE YOUR EFFING PRODUCT. The CPM is SHOCKED & HORRIFIED by the sheer number of product managers she’s met who can’t [...]

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Power Post #2: Hoarding Features & Products

January 22, 2010

(OK, another 5 minute Power Post.  An attempt to break through the procrastination and writer’s block that has been plaguing the author of this blog.) The Cranky PM has recently become obsessed with the TV Show Hoarders.  If you are unfamiliar, it is a reality show that profiles people who hoard stuff — tons of [...]

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Power Post: Quickie Observations on Life in the Software Industry

January 22, 2010

The Cranky Product Manager has been neglectful of this here blog, once again. Good thing she’s not being paid to do it or anything, or else she’d be so totally fired. Anyway, to break through the Huge Writer’s Block that has been in her way for the last 7 weeks or so, the Cranky PM [...]

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Guest Post: The Cranky Analyst Wants Everyone To Stop Yelling At Each Other

August 5, 2009

Today we have an excellent guest post from a professional ho-bag.  No, not Lady Gaga, nor Paris Hilton, but an IT Industry Analyst!  You know, one of those coin-operated Gardener / Forest Ranger types. The Cranky PM feels positively DIRTY publishing this, but it is very excellently written, quite cranky, and pretty durn funny (O-holes!  [...]

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Defending the CPM’s Fictional Name

July 1, 2009

You “regular” people will probably never understand this, but it is TOUGH TOUGH TOUGH being a fictional product management celebrity. (Please, cry for me, Argentina.) For one, the paparazzi never leave you alone. Second, you never get any ”real-world” Web-2.0 cred – even at a time when everyone else is vomiting  ”social media brand-building” all over their resumes.  [...]

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