Comments on: Caption Contest: Offshore (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

By: Caption Contest Winners: 7 Types of Software Engineers | The Cranky Product Manager

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:33:55 +0000

[...] BIG WINNER for ALL the Engineer types is DGentry for his submission for Offshore: The Cranky PM and “Another PM” (author of the original post) almost wet their pants [...]

By: Paco

Paco — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:57:34 +0000

“All your base are belong to us.”

By: Dawn Hollowell

Dawn Hollowell — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:14:38 +0000

(coded into a user-facing message – discovered during QA)

“Wait some number of minutes while this process completes.”

By: Stewart Rogers

Stewart Rogers — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:00:39 +0000

We can build that, tell us what to do.

By: DGentry

DGentry — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:03:25 +0000

(delivered via email, of course):

“Dear PM,
I examine even us again.
I arrive at the office and confirm a script now.
If you are ready, please tell it.”

By: roadmapwarrior

roadmapwarrior — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:44:00 +0000

If you know your party’s extension in binary, please enter it now…

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:53:09 +0000

“We ever did that feature.” (no spelling mistake here)

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:43:31 +0000

No problem, we certainly understand your requirements!

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:01:14 +0000

We c…CLICK…y imple…BUZZ…ust tel…UNINTELLIGIBLE…you want …HISS… it.

By: Saeed Khan

Saeed Khan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:41:45 +0000

Here are a couple:

“The upcoming 3 day national holiday is going to disrupt our schedule by at least 2 weeks”

“So, for requirement 10, we’ve created 5 prototypes we need you to evaluate”

“Half our team quit this week. Microsoft hired them at twice the pay they were getting here.”