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  1. POLL: Agile vs. Waterfall Software Development

    http://www.crankypm.com/crankypm/2008/09/poll-agile-vs-waterfall-software-development.html

    Hey there, the Cranky Product Manager has a new poll over at Facebook.  Its purpose is to informally see how much software development methodologies have changed over the past 2 years, be they  Waterfall, Agile / Scrum, Agile / But Not Scrum,  or Cowboy Coding.  Only 2 questions. …

    83 days ago
  2. Top 10 Reasons Why the Cranky Product Manager Would Make a Good Vice Presidential Candidate

    http://www.crankypm.com/crankypm/2008/09/top-10-reasons-why-the-cranky-product-manager-would-make-a-good-vice-president.html

    Apologies to readers outside of the United States who give not a hoot about our presidential election. And advanced apologies to anyone offended by the semi-political nature of this post. The Cranky Product Manager just couldn't resist, this one time. Top 10 Reasons Why the Cranky Product Manager Would Make a Good Vice Presidential Candidate 1. …

    83 days ago
  3. Delivering Sub-optimal Product/Blog News

    http://www.crankypm.com/crankypm/2008/09/delivering-bad-product-news.html

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    83 days ago
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    Via The Cranky Product Manager Blog - the ugly side of software product development

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    Egghead Marketing

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    The Cranky Product Manager

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    The Cranky Product Manager

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    Top 10 Reasons Why the Cranky Product Manager Would Make a Good Vice Presidential Candidate Delivering Sub-optimal Product/Blog News About Readers of This Here Blog Scrum THIS Finally, an Award for a Product Manager. Any Cartoonists Out There? The 6 Types of Software Engineers: Identification, Care and Feeding

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    Friday fun: the personas of our teams

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    describing different programmers from a product managers

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    Friday fun: the personas of our teams

    http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/blogs/productmarketing/arc...

    describing different programmers from a product managers

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    RADVISION Blogs -

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    I recently read a post written by a (cranky) Product Manager (PM), describing different programmers from a PM’s view. The whole post is decretory and self-centered (as usual for cranky PMs), evaluating programmers not as people but as clichés, and overall is quite insulting. The easy thing for me would have been to write an equally decretory view of PMs:

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    The WorkerThread Blog

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    Second place in the Project Management blogs section was the Cranky Product Manager described as “the fictional snarky alter-ego of a mild mannered software product management professional”.  I particularly liked the post on the 6 types of software engineer - identification, care and feeding.  I’ve definitely met these people! On the SharePoint side of project management, there’s a book due in October from Dux Raymond Sy called SharePoint for Project Management which looks very interesting - I will post more on this

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    Your Product Manager’s Configuration and You

    http://blog.radvision.com/codeofcontact/2008/09/10/your-prod...

    describing different programmers from a PM