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Return of the Product Management Haiku (now with extra fun)

April 23, 2009

Remember this?  The Product Management Haikus (originally inspired by Pivotal PM)? The Cranky PM is inspired to once again dust off her quill pen and write some more poetry.  Poetry that no one but you folks would possibly understand. If you are similarly inspired, post your own haiku in the comments!  If yours makes the [...]

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The Cranky Product Manager bitchslaps the Cranky Marketer

April 15, 2009

OK, so the Cranky Product Manager has been a big lazy pants lately.  No posts for over 10 days and then relying on guest posts for the past few weeks.  What can she say?  She’s drowning under a pile of work, dealing with her frakin’ taxes (which were WICKED complicated this year), and adjusting to [...]

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Guest Post: The Cranky Engineer Responds to a PRD

April 1, 2009

Today we have a super-duper-uber-fantastic guest post from the Cranky Engineer, aka DGentry of codingrelic.geekhold.com. Check out his blog.  It’s WICKED AWESOME. Also, you might recall that DGenery was the BIG WINNER of the Cranky Product Manager’s caption contest for the “7 Types of Engineers.” He won a fancy pants coffee mug.  AND HE LOVES [...]

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Dilbert for Product Managers

March 6, 2009

The Cranky PM loves Dilbert. Shocking, isn’t it? As a gift to the Internets (and to anyone making a speech about product management), help the Cranky Product Manager create a list of links to Dilbert cartoons* that are funny to product management types.  Untack those comics from your cubicle wall, look at the dates, and [...]

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Book Review: The Product Manager’s Desk Reference

March 2, 2009

OK, here is a long overdue review on The Product Manager’s Desk Reference by Stephen Haines. Quick Summary This 704 page tome is huge and not exactly a thrilling read.  The Cranky Product Manager highly doubts there is a bidding war on for the movie rights.  But nonetheless it is an excellent reference that  has [...]

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Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Four

February 20, 2009

Paco continues his guest post arc on the plight of the unemployed product manager (see parts 1, 2, and 3). Give him some love and a job already! Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Four Ahh, the final installment. Time to wrap this puppy up. Sadly, I can’t really [...]

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Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Three

February 19, 2009

Paco continues his guest post arc (see part 1 and part 2), allowing the Cranky Product Manager to enjoy some time with her kid. Thanks! Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed PM, Part Three Last time, I waxed poetic (I’m being generous) about learning to drink dirt once the Product Management well [...]

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Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager – Part Two

February 17, 2009

Paco continues his guest post arc (see part 1), allowing the Cranky Product Manager to rest yet another day Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager – Part Two In the previous installment, I blathered about how bad the job market is right now. Think Les Miserables except less French people [...]

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Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager – Part One

February 16, 2009

You guys know Paco, right? He always makes intelligent comments on posts, participates in caption contests, etc… He is a one COOL dude. Anyway, he’s giving the Cranky Product Manager a rest this week with part one of a four part series on being an unemployed product manager. The Cranky Product Manager finds his perspective [...]

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Guest Post: The Cranky Test for Agile Product Managers

February 6, 2009

Today we have a glorious guest post from Scott Sehlhorst, product management consultant extraordinaire and author of the tasty-good Tyner Blain blog. Scott may be genetically incapable of true crankiness.  One of his co-workers once accused him of having excess serotonin levels.  And he’s never had a headache.  Nor has his dad or his grandfather. [...]

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