“The Regulators Song” by Fred Sicherman

Freddy Sicherman adaptation for Agile — Sung to the tune of “The Times They Are a Changing”

Come gather ’round team
Wherever you roam
And admit that the projects
Around you have grown –

And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your backlog to you
Is worth savin’

Then you better start sprinting
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the projects they are a-changin’.

Come Product owners
Who write with your pen
keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the S2’s in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s naming.

For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the projects they are a-changin’.

Come Directors , Managers
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall

For he that does status
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a version 1 framework – and its ragin’.

It’ll soon shake your team rooms
And rattle your halls
For the projects they are a-changin’.

Come PM’s and Engineers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand

Your tasks and your Epics
Are under your command
The old road is
Rapidly agin’.

Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the projects they are a-changin’.

The line it is drawn
The die it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast –
And the present now
Will later be past
The old road is
Rapidly fadin’.

And the first one now
Will later be last
For the Projects they are a-changin’.