Product owner Memes

That random cube sticking out of the building is exactly what happens when the product owner says "Can we just add one more tiny feature?" on day 9 of a 10-day sprint. The architect had a beautiful, clean design until some executive decided users absolutely needed a random box jutting out from the 7th floor. Now the developers are frantically refactoring load-bearing walls while the QA team wonders if rain will leak into that monstrosity. Classic scope creep in concrete form!

The sweet, fleeting moment when you think you might actually complete a project on time... and then the product owner swoops in with their "small features" that are actually massive scope changes. That expression shift from "I'm about to accomplish something" to "my weekend is canceled" happens faster than a production server crashes after pushing untested code. Those "quick calls" are where dreams go to die. And somehow those "couple small features" always multiply like rabbits with a caffeine addiction.

That face when the product owner describes a completely vague feature, you have zero clue how to implement it, but somehow everyone agrees it's a "5-point story." In Agile planning poker, story points are supposed to measure complexity, but they've become the universal "sounds complicated but not too complicated" metric. It's the software equivalent of answering "fine" when someone asks how you're doing while your code is silently burning in production. The best part? Next sprint, that innocent 5-pointer will mutate into a 13-point monster with seven undocumented dependencies and a legacy system integration nobody mentioned in the planning meeting.