Sung to the tune of Ballad of Thunder Road
You might have heard the story
and maybe lived the tale
about a fateful project
that was driven off the rails
The business passed on planning
The budget was a SWAG
The PM says ‘Go faster,
don’t you let this project drag!’
The BA got canned early
But no one’s sayin why
We think he quoted Covey
and the sponsor hit the sky
CHORUS:
And there is scope creep, scope creep
everywhere we go
Planning is for pansies and
the budget is a joke
And there’ll be rework, rework
till the day we die
Don’t bother with requirements
We’ll invent them on the fly
The PM and the architect
Threw angry words today
It seems she took exception to
the phrase ‘No freakin’ way!”
Designer’s in a funk now
His feature got the axe
He took a month’s vacation and
we hope he’s comin’ back
The engineers are fuming
The schedule is too tight
Release was planned for April
Now it’s due on Friday night.
* CHORUS *
We had a QA lead, she was
the best we could afford
When she fin’lly saw the schedule
she ran screaming out the door.
The testers went to job fairs
The sponsor can’t be found
But the PM’s gonna ride us
till we run into the ground.
* CHORUS *