I think you should dress as Sponge Bob Square Pants

"It is difficult to get a man <for PC purposes, I'll update that to person> to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

I'll start with a quote and end with a quote, but in between the message is simple: Product managers should not be developing business cases. Rather, they should be facilitating their development by enlisting/enjoining the recognized subject matter experts from marketing, engineering, ops, legal, regulatory, sales, and PR for their biz case assumptions. PMs should scrupulously challenge and scrupulously review the same, and then hand the whole works over to finance who, in most publicly traded companies, owns subscriber recognition & long range financial plans. In this way, PMs control the process but not the model, thus enhancing and "accreting-to" their credibility... the single most significant arrow in a PMs quiver.

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"They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it <inserted by a smiling me: the trouble with all product managers>" -Joseph Addison.

Creating business cases doesn't always mean you're the one that has the tangible deliverable due - sometimes the creation is the process of getting there itself.

Re: #2 So TRUE which totally p's me off! Working with men described in #2 is really annoying regardless of what they think their "expertise" is. These types of guys get under my skin like a really small sliver. Wonder if there is something in common between the two?

damn! am doin somethin similar :P Kundalini Yoga.. Organic Food...livin like a saint !!! as these developers manufacture bugs like F***

Rolling out of my chair it so funny.

Fire that bozo, the Cranky marketer

Fell asleep somewhere around the first mention of Magic Quadrant