The Zen of Product Management Haiku!
Need a break from the onslaught of daily tasks? Try writing a Product Management haiku - it's the perfect way to creatively express your product management acumen!
What’s Haiku?
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, traditionally printed in a single vertical line. Haiku in English generally appear in three lines, usually with specific syllable counts, to parallel the three metrical phrases of Japanese haiku. The classic English haiku line/syllable format is "5/7/5."
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Can't handle the truth
A roadmap, humbug
You want to pay, we will add
Have forecast to meet
--Anon
Old System Development Rules made new
Wild Enthusiasm, make a cool acronym, disillusionment
Search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent
NOTHING works until v 3.0 ask Bill, promotion of the non participant
--George Prater Architect (and some Prod Mgmt UW)
Rome
All roads lead to me
I am the Product Manager
I must be crazy
--
The Professor
The love of teaching
Good mentors inspire within
Passion to Succeed
--Angela Campbell
Law of Attraction
In current social content ecosystem
Good Content beats the web crawlers
SEO is Internet's Law of Attraction
--Omar Aloyoun - EVERNET.com
Launch Disaster
No clear goals for launch
No cross-functional launch team
Blamestorm imminent
--Chris Cummings
Google Products Secret
Google Adopted A Secret Formula
Simplicity Is The Utltimate Sophistication
Quote by "Leonardo Da Vinci"
--Omar Aloyoun - Evernet.com
The Roadmap
Eureka! I’ve found
a place where roadmaps seldom
change: Rand McNally.
--John Curtis, Ulticom
Sartre Was Right
Arbitrary deadline,
Fire drill again!
Oh, where is my pizza?
--Sally Carter
Holiday Dreams
Dear Santa, bring me
an exec team with some sense.
Or else a new job!
--Grinchy in Green Bay
Quality Improvement
check, check and recheck
if not, product line will slip
unacceptable
--Joseph Spence, Sr.
PM
I often wonder
am I the product or is
the real product me?
--- Confusious PM
Usability almost
usability
is important says the boss
but not funded! psych!
--Trevor Rotzien
The Product Manager
Products and features
Come to life, improve business
PRD wizard
--Bonnie Taepakdee
Spiralling Out of Control
This was working, right
But it is not working now
Here we go again
--Jerry Vaughn
Bug Testing at Freelock
occasionally
web pages might go awry
hopefully this works
--Aaron at Freelock
At Stake
the engineer errs
and writes a patch, the PM errs
and both lose their jobs
--David Asher
Untitled
Find time, find some time
to do some great product management work
Oops no, got this call!
--Sandeep Mangla
MRD
Blind development
Market demand is not met
thus we need the spec
--Kate Thorsen
A sad little rumination on expectations, craftsmanship and hope
My MRD rocks
Devs begin to laugh loudly
Reality strikes
--Thomas Brooks, Captaris
Innovative Reality
New product. No cash.
Fervent prayers for just one thing:
early adopters
--Scott McLeod, Adaptis
Untitled
In my solitude
Cares cleansed from my weary mind
My hope is renewed
--Hank Byington
The Last Haiku
Bug bash finally done
We’re almost feature complete
Where are my car keys?
--Anonymous
Untitled
User needs explored
Product features set
Customers rejoice!
--Lin Lindsey
Finance Haiku
"Sold" does not always
mean dollars can be counted
GAAP clouds the forecast
--Linda Merrick
Haiku
Crossing chasms well;
That’s the theory anyway.
I hope to keep up.
--Matt Bogusz
Forgot Something
Pricing was set
Collateral was ready
Finance pulled the plug
--Mara Krieps
Untitled
Products are key
Process is essential
Design for Customer Delight
--Bruce Nowjack
Haiku
A flurry of angst
Hasty, troubling tradeoffs
We're feature complete
--Thomas Brooks
Overhead
Mean Finance guy
fully burdened my product
Oh no! Watch it drown
--Mara Krieps