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The Cranky Product Manager is a little busy this week, seeing as she is now also doing the work of 4 people who were laid off. So, she's going to be a laze and reprint an old article from exactly 2 years ago: Scrum This! (see original post with the comments here). Request: Don't [...]
Every time the Cranky Product Manager reads about a new B2B startup or product, she gets a sense of déjà vu. Alas, it's not a glitch in the Matrix. It's because pretty much every single product pitch sounds exactly the same. Watered down, generic, and 100% free of taste. A grinder is at work at almost [...]
The Cranky Product Manager was just thinking back -- oh so nostalgically -- on her MBA years. Ah yes, what a joy it was to devote herself full-time to the study of BUSINESS.... so different than her undergrad years as an Engineering major at a random institute of technology. No more studying seven days and [...]
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 [...]
Please excuse the Cranky Product Manager with a long overdue post, to continue her "No Excuses Product Management" series. ============= LAME-ASS PRODUCT MANAGEMENT EXCUSE #3: "I have no market data. I don't know the market size (or market share, competitor share, market growth, competitor features, or other relevant facts about the market) because there is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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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