Things in Product Management That Have Never Happened

1. A feature communicated via a single mockup with no annotations was added to a sprint in the last minute.

The build was successful. Nothing broke and engagement soared due to the little addition.
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2. The mockups and specs used "lorem ipsum" copy on all page headings & success/error messages.

Engineers used their ingenuity to devise coherent messages and added them right before the push to production.
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3. The PM's new feature proposed to replace a text field with an auto complete drop down on a heavily used form.

The migration script magically mapped all the old free text values to the lookup set with no data loss.
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4. The PM had a chat with a few customers about their needs and came up with a solution in isolation.

The customer saw the final product 8 months later for the first time on production and it was exactly what they needed. Mind-blowing.
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5. The adoption metrics for a specific feature showed steep declining trends in the Mixpanel dash. The team chose to attribute it to misplaced trackers.

Months later, the feature became the #1 reason why customers remained engaged on the product. A magic bullet.

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Alright then.

Let's name this list...

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"Things in product management that have NEVER happened".