Earned Value Management Haiku

Hi, Emily. Will you accept a scheduling palindrome instead?

No! I tag no legal SS lag "elongation"!

Fraternally in project management,

Steve the Bajan

Very good...now if only you could submit a Haiku and you could have a chance to win $100 :-)

Perhaps your students would like the opportunity? The competition ends in two weeks!

Emily

Emily, unfortunately my semester is over. But it's not a bad idea -- I'll blast an email tomorrow.

EVM, eh?

Cost is all there is.

Value? Schedule? Forget it!

Just ess with two bars.

Fraternally in project management,

Steve the Bajan

Very good. I'll add that to the entries. I wonder if your students will come up with anything now they're all on break!

Hi Emily

The examples on your link were not true Haiku which must contain the following rules:

1st Line 5 syllables 2nd Line 7 syllables 3rd Line 5 syllables

It must have some relation to the seasons

It must have some spiritual or phylosophic content.

Here is an example of one I wrote when I was in Tokyo - nothing to do with EVM which is not a proper topic for a pure Haiku

High in winter skies

Flying to new horizons

How the wild goose cries

And one that my Grandson wrote for a school project

Man tickles for trout

In a deep icy river

Gets frozen fingers

Best regards

Mike Testro

Thanks Mike and of course, you are absolutely correct about Haiku's. We've just announced the winner here http://www.tensixconsulting.com/2013/05/earned-value-management-haiku/ 

I hope you don't mind, but I posted your comments along side some other entries as well as I thought you'd made some excellent points!

Emily

Hi Stephen

That is very good.

Best regards

Mike T.

Hi, Mike and Emily! Congratulations to Christopher Henry -- nice job, very poetic.

Now can I go back to cricket limericks?

In youth, his batting was daunting;

Bowlers were always found wanting.

    But now his ducks mount;

    On one hand we can count

All the runs to be added by Ponting.

Fraternally in project management,

Steve the Bajan

Hi Stephen

Heres another

An experienced player named Gatting

Got sledged when starting his batting

An Oz said to Gatt

Why are you so fat?

"After sh**ging your wife I like snacking"

Best regards

Mike Testro

Mike, on that (off-)topic (and only for the real cricket nerds):

When English cricket was mourned,

And weak bats their line-up adorned,

    Gatt thought: "Oh, the umps

    Will rule: 'Outside the stumps!' "

But then he was seriously Warned!

Fraternally in cricket,

Steve the Bajan