Jira July: Ode to Jira Haiku Contest

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G’day Jira Poets,

🌹Roses are red.

💙Violets are blue.

✍️ Are you ready to write a Jira Haiku?

That’s right…we want you to share your best Jira Haiku with us by July 20th for the chance to win some fun, Atlassian prizes.

Already experiencing writer’s block? We have you covered with inspiration and tips!

💡Inspiration:

• Tell us how your team uses Jira.

• Tell us how you’ve experienced success with Jira.

• Tell us why you love Jira.

• Tell us why your Jira admin is the greatest.

• Check out the examples from the Jira PMM team and Jira customer,
  @dannysanchez who shared some of his Haikus on Twitter. 

🤓 Helpful Tips:

• Check out this Work Life blog: The 5 keys to creativity in a hybrid workplace - Work Life by Atlassian

• Take a walk.

• Get some fresh air

• Listen to some tunes.

Here's what you need for the haiku contest:

✅ Creative cap

✅ Haiku Refresher

✅ Scratchpad for brainstorming

✅ Share your haiku below in the comments by Wednesday, July 20, 2022

The five winners 🏆 will be announced the week of July 25th in a community post.

Happy writing!

[Ed Letifov _TechTime - New Zealand_]

Jira tickets age. 

Piled, — leaves in the fall. Backlog. 

Scrum Master’s nightmare. 

[Courtney - TechTime]

Post-its are the past

remote work and office work

unite with Jira

[Courtney - TechTime]

Organise your thoughts

get them out of your head and

onto the board - breathe

[Dam]

Getting things done 

Dashboard full of tasks

Jira inked on my bones

[Sam Nadarajan]

Column's getting red

Bottlenecks make me anxious

I still heart Jira

EDIT: I like rhymes for some reason

Column's getting red

Bottlenecks fill me with dread

Time to get ahead

[Sam Nadarajan]

Jira in my dreams

Daily usage in my teams

Atlassian beams :)

[Dam]

I've got issues on my mind 

Jira is now all mine 

Let's do it agile 

[Walter Buggenhout]

[Walter Buggenhout]

[Walter Buggenhout]

[Summer Hogan]

I wrote two:

My backlog is small

I have Jira to thank for

All the great work done

Sprinting and Sprinting

Stories to work on today

Close em, close em done!

[Sam Nadarajan]

Jira in my sleep

Counting issues not the sheep

I don't make a peep

[Sam Nadarajan]

Create, Rank, Edit

Work, Review, Test, Done, Report

#JiraIssueLife

[Shamalah Machap]

[Deleted user]

The sun is shining ☀️

Four more tasks before my walk 🚶‍♂️

I hope they are short 😬

[Bill Sheboy]

Engaging partners
Teams' problems we soon resolve
Toward value alone

[Jimmy Seddon]

Thank you @Kalee Williams!  This is an awesome creative prompt.

As for my own submission:

The Community,
A Jira admin's best friend.
Go sign up right now!

[Ken Paetzold]

Love this idea @Kalee Williams ! Here's my attempt: 

Jira, guiding light

Team projects are in our site

Done column delight

[Monique vdB]

Dusting off my poetry teacher credentials for this! I remember a few haiku concepts: lines must be self-contained; you have to indicate what season it is; often it is a combination of something old and something new.  So my poem:

A decades-old tool
Innovations keep it fresh
Ice pops and Jira

[Andy Gladstone]

Epics in the present /

A future full of stories /

The chaos has passed /

[Marc Dvorschak]

Releases are planned
Issues transition their states
Customer happy

This is my first Haiku ever. I hope I got it right. 😁

[Monique vdB]

@Marc Dvorschak yours is one of my favorites! I love the last line.

[Sarah Saleh]

Cool concept :) here's my attempt:

[Melo]

Stories for the sprints
The sunlight brightens my day
One more project done

I'll keep trying 😅

[Jenn Velázquez]

I got 99 issues

But having no tool to manage them

Isn’t one.

-Jira Haiku-

Ps. I might be clueless about Haikus 😅