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- The Cranky Product Manager started bitching and moaning about the realities of Silicon-Valley-style product development in the year 2006.
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OK, everyone. The Cranky Product Manager wants you all to get up and sing. SING, DAMMIT, SING. Because the Cranky Product Manager is now officially THREE years old. OK, three years old plus 4 days. The CPM is a little bit late with her own birthday - this blog was born on June 11, 2006...
About The Cranky Product Manager Founded in 2006, The Cranky Product Manager (aka CPM) is a leading provider of world class, robust, scalable, and market leading content that help product professionals unlock value and position themselves for success in the marketplace...
About The Cranky Product Manager Founded in 2006, The Cranky Product Manager (aka CPM) is a leading provider of world class, robust, scalable, and market leading content that help product professionals unlock value and position themselves for success in the marketplace...
For years, the Cranky Product Manager has been dealing with all those whiny Sales Droids. You know, those people who moan all the time about how Salesis The. Hardest. Job. Ever.,as theyyap on their bluetooths while driving around in their Porche 911s...
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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...
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...
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...
The Cranky Sales Engineer has been truly touched by the tales of abuse heaped upon his brethren in Marketing. Sitting among a din of the kind of violin music that must surely accompany such tales of woe, the Cranky Sales Engineer helps in the only way he can...
Today we have a a delicious guest post from an anonymous CRANKY MARKETER. Whooo hoooo. Now be warned, this is Part ONE of a three part series. And the Cranky Product Manager has not yet seen parts two or three...
Annual planning is nearly over and the Cranky Sales Engineer almost has his quota for the year. In a tequila inspired fit of account-planning ecstasy, he has decided to share how he and his brethren actually sell products and what product managers can actually do to help...
As you might know from previous posts, the Cranky Product Manager is pretty neutral on Agile / Scrum. Yes, Agile is trendy. Everyone is doing it...
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...
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...
These days, lots of people arrive here with Google searches like “how to find a new product management position.” Not surprising. So many of us have gotten the axe recently...
If you follow the Cranky Product Manager on Twitter, you probably know that she adores onthefringe, a “VC-backed, start-up CEO, sharing day-to-day insights in the day-to-day life of a start-up.” He(?)/she(?) often shares “advice” for product managers. Funny stuff...
Despite the Cranky Sales Engineer’s best efforts to educate product managers in the proper way to train a Sales Engineer, he is now sitting towards the front of a large room being pummeled by wordy slides...
The Cranky Sales Engineer has been reading Paco’s musings on moving into sales with some interest...
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...
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...
One of the Crankerati (that’s what the CPM is now calling all you readers) sent this in, so the Cranky Product Manager might share it with you. FREAKIN’ HILARIOUS STUFF. And still oh so true. Enjoy. Summary: Back in the 1990s, some creative marketing people at Sun made this video...
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...
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...
Hey! Look! It’s a new Cranky Product Manager mug! It declares to the world “I AM A CRANKY PRODUCT MANAGER.” You should get yourself one. It’s WICKED AWESOME. PM leaders, just think of it...
Dammit dammit dammit. The Cranky Product Manager is having a really, really bad month. Anyone would be PISSED give her sad situation...
Remember the Cranky Sales Engineer? He did such a WICKED AWESOME job of bringing the CRANK (plus a dose of BITCH, MOAN, and don’t forget WHINE) to this blog, that going forward he’s gonna be a semi-regular feature on this here blog. Yippee...
7:00 am. The Cranky Product Manager awakes. Grabs the Blackberry Curve off the bedside table. Starts deleting spam. Opens the following email from a reader and starts laughing hysterically...
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...
(Continuing the Cranky Product Manager’s long-winded response to the Cranky Sales Engineer’s diatribe on training at Sales Kickoff. See part 1 here.) Let the Cranky Product Manager next respond to this nugget of advice on product training, courtesy of the Cranky Sales Engineer: 7...
Earlier, we had an excellent guest post from The Cranky Sales Engineer. The Cranky Product Manager thought much of it was brilliant, but nevertheless some parts irritated her. Enough that the Cranky Product Manager’s response takes TWO posts. This is part 1. Let’s start with this paragraph: 3...
Today we have a WICKED AWESOME guest post and a bit of role reversal. Listen up, Product Managers, as the Cranky Sales Engineer schools you on what he wants from the product training you inflict on him during the annual Sales Kickoff meeting...
The Cranky Product Manager is still in her funk. Such things happen when layoffs hit too close to home. No, the Cranky Product Manager was not laid off, but this guy she knows was. And apparently, helives in her house, is father to her child, and pays a bunch of the bills...
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