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Sugar coating: Sometimes you have to tell your engineers their software SUCKS
You get to a point where you can no longer hold back. It is like that bad uncle with the Comb-over who is not fooling anyone. Your software sucks. It is a shitty UI, it looks like technicolor vomit erupted on the screen. It is so unusable, that pe…
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A product management community – just starting
It has been a poorly kept secret that I have had an alter ego, the snarky, White Russian drinking league bowler known as the PM Dude. Created to be an outlet for some truly bad management from above, and with a high level of snark, it was catharti…
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Some tasks really can’t be done Agile
Sunday morning here, and I am working on my backlog in preparation for iteration planning tomorrow. One of the major tasks is that a recent architecture change (that was SUPER for performance) heinously breaks our old model of licensing. By old, I…
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I miss my real blog – rambling about product management, and my sad state.
Summary: A few weeks ago, a sales engineer was being disruptive in our iteration demo meeting. I sent a (non appropriate) message to my scrum master to get this individual to stop trying to turn it into a design review. The message was mistakenly …