Cranky Product Manager - humor

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"People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole," an HBS professor named Theodore Levitt famously told his students. Too often, marketers get wrapped up in the features and functions of their products, rather than solving the actual problems of the consumer. That leads to pointless one-upmanship versus competition and over-bundled products that don't handle any one feature particularly well. Marketers also tend to average out all of the feedback from consumers…

"If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," Steve Jobs famously said. Cannibalization risk is a major factor in evaluating innovation. No product is 100% incremental so we have to decide whether new products will more than offset the sales loss of what's already on the shelf. What's often left out of the equation though is the risk of our current products becoming obsolete no matter what we do.

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Hootsuite - Social Media Management. With Hootsuite, you can monitor keywords, manage multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare profiles, schedule messages, and measure your success.

The gnomes bargain with the boys. From Season 02 Episode 17, Gnomes.

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After seeing so many of these "this is my profession and this is how different people see it" on Facebook, I decided I wanted to give it a shot for software testers. A couple of minutes searching and pasting gave me this. Give me your feedback, but remember (1) it is a joke and (2)…

Emotions of a Software Developer

Ugh. Password requirements.

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For when things need to be said, and you really don't feel like talking.