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PM Humor: Signs that your project might be off the rails

September 29, 2007 from Raven's Brain: Project Management Humor

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I came across a post by Daniel B Markham over at What To Fix that project managers might find humorous: Is Your Project Off-The-Rails? It's written from a developers perspecitve, but still contains amusements for PMs:

Signs that your project might be off the rails.

  • Your team has a prayer vigil on the release date
  • The requirements are being written from the code
  • You seem to remember having a house and kids somewhere
  • Your project plan includes your retirement party, and you're only 27
  • Your only design diagram consists of a picture of Halle Barry in a bikini
  • Nobody has seen the documentation guy since he went to that last user's meeting.
  • First you used a requirements system, then you used cards, then post-it notes. Now your requirements are written on napkins from the chinese restaurant
  • Your project manager's nickname is "shifty"
  • The original estimate was that it would take 3 weeks. This estimate was done when the project first started by one of Noah's sons
  • You think the three major food groups are candy bars, Jolt, and microwave popcorn
  • Your project plan was created by calling a psychic 900-number
  • You can only visit your users with bullet-proof glass and a prison telephone
  • They handcuff you to your desk
  • Your job application had a question asking how you feel about drive-by shootings
  • The Testing department is wearing body armor and is building a bunker in the cafeteria
  • Your last code review was attended by Hans Blix
  • You start secretly adding "help me" messages in your code comments
  • Your status reports must end in "so help me god"
  • You decide that instead of listing this job on your resume, you're going to put down that your were in prison for stealing from orphans
  • Your test plan includes renting a safe house and buying disguises
  • Your voice mail has an option for death threats

    read more here: http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2006/06/is_your_project.php

    • posted by Raven at Raven's Brain under Project Management Humor
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