Humor

Market interviews GONE BAD (with comics!)

Ever wonder why so many startup entrepreneurs put out misguided and doomed products, even after taking four steps toward an epiphany and reading the "Lean Startup"? Face Palm Alas, I have witnessed similar "attempts" at market

The Five Stages of Debugging

A guest post, from the point of view of an engineer, about the difficult emotional journey involved in tracking down a nasty, horrible, elusive, hard-to-reproduce bug.

The Brain of a Tech Sales Rep - A Visual Guide

Behold, I have developed a visual guide to the inside of a Sales Rep's brain! Or more specifically, an Enterprise Software Sales Rep's brain, as viewed from Product Management. Please do not show to any sales

Cartoon: Product Roadmap Fail

A new, original cartoon for your enjoyment. Inspired by countless product roadmap presentations that I have slept through over the years. (TIP: Telling customers & prospects about features that are not for them or that they don't care

Return of the Product Management haiku

Remember this?  The Product Management Haikus (originally inspired by Pivotal PM)? I am inspired to once again dust off my quill pen and write some more poetry. Poetry that no one but you, a reader of a product management blog,

This amazing product management magazine concept was inspired by the literature in my dentist's office

Don't know about you, but I'd read it....

The Veteran Software Engineer: Hard Proof At Last

I received an email from a reader regarding this blog's recent guest post, The 7 Types of Engineers [https://blog.sueraisty.com/humor-7-types-software-engineers/]. > To Whom I May Concern, > I have attached a picture of the real

Product Management Haiku, Redux

In our coupious spare time, Product Management bloggers just LOVE writing haikus. Check it: here (Pivotal PM), and here (my previous post), and here (Product Management Meets Pop Culture), and here (Tyner Blain), and here (On Product Management). The fun

Product Management & Product Marketing Haiku

Inspired by the fine folks at Pivotal Product Management, here are some enthralling and inspirational haiku I whipped together. Only bad PMs Don't install or even use The products they own. Their go-to excuse: "Technically impossible,"

Harvester Research and Analyst 2.0

Oh goodness. This April Fool's send-up of technology analysts [http://wikibon.org/groupdocs/13_341246093.pdf] has been creeping around the Internet for some time. But this is the first time I've seen it. Please read

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The Joy of Sales Kickoff

This post was originally published on the Cranky Product Manager blog. (Learn more about the Cranky Product Manager here.) The Joy of Sales Kickoff The air is brisk. The holiday chocolate is all gone. And, at last, the gluttonous end-of-year