‘Gig’ gle— Humor in Product Management

All work no humor make John Doe a boring user persona.When has a little bit of humor hurt anybody?

Below is a collection of humorous thoughts about Product Management

First thing that a superstitious, religious Change Management guru, did at a company named Status Quo was to have sprint start on Wednesday instead of Tuesday

What’s common to Bugs and Kids? Well, you raise ’em both and in the process you gotta fix ’em.

I write stories. Short stories. I am no writer, just a Product Manager.

Context: Half of Scrum team is in India and the rest in US. Scrum meetings are held at 7:30 am EST

What’s the first thing that Product Managers in US do every morning?

Stand Up

Let’s say Mihir (an ex-employee) was a PM who worked on modules like SSO few months ago

Tech implementation consultant comes by the product team and asks who worked on SSO.

PM1: ‘Mihir.’

PM2: ‘Isn’t that name a misnomer/ironic? Mihir (pronounced me-here) is actually not-here.’

How did the Client flirt with SMTP server?

‘You had me at EHLO’

A product manager’s profile on a matrimonial site looked like this:

Master at differentiating between what my life partner wants and needs. Having kids is definitely on the road-map but not until 5 years post marriage. My Backlog is embellished with activities that I can engage with my partner for another 2 years. Easy going, have collaborated with people from different walks of life and ages. Mesmerizing speaker; can rally folks behind a cause and extremely cognizant of audience while delivering keynotes.. eg: kids, parents, grandparents. Have been a part of large and small teams: Joint & Nuclear Family

Currently seeking a girl who is a good product-life fit.

Product Manager who works on Identity and Access Management, had the following printed on his tee for halloween: “I SAML therefore IAM”

A guy found it difficult to write lyrics. One of his friends said, “like an MVP why don’t you play instrumental / solo so that you don’t have to deal with writing lyrics?”

SSO (Single Sign-On) access to cloud applications for employees / customers is critical to ensure employee and customer productivity. A slight fuck up and it turns into a SOS call to admins

What do you call Descendants of Atri Rishi, working on Identity and Access Management related stuff?

‘Auth’reya

What metric does a Networking / Performance Measurement PM use to decide what food stall to get lunch from in a food court?

TTFB (Time to First Bite)