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by Steven_Paul_Allen @ 2008/02/28 - 14:50:54

I attended a meeting this morning from the hours of 10am to 12pm. Here is what I learnt from this meeting:

The favorite phrase of the person who chaired the meeting was "for want of a better term". Here are some examples of this term in action:
"We've squirted this content at them, for want of a better term"
"What steps can we actually 'electrify', for want of a better term"
"My vision, for want of a better term"
"What they'll be taught to do, for want of a better term"

Rows in a flow chart are called "swimming lanes"

If you want to say that something is going to happen in the future, this is referred to as "downstream"

If something is going to be completed by us this happens "in our world"

Here are my favorite phrases that I noted down during the meeting:
"I'm going to say something now and then park it"
"What that means back in our world"
"Phase two enhancement downstream"
"Let's park that for now and imagine that we are supplying this"
"At the very front end we've got to turn that tap off"
"That's the vision, any questions?"

Your comments regarding the above will be greatly appreciated.

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It's all jangle box seed, I have less quick time in my flex angular reality.

Was the meeting chaired by a Meercat or a Tawny Owl?

Steven_Paul_AllenSteven_Paul_Allen pro
2008-02-29 @ 15:56

I believe him to be an incarnation of one of the Easter Island statues, but if forced to say for real I would call him a flightless owl. One that has lost the ability to turn it's head through three hundred and sixty degrees. Instead he can just stare straight ahead whilst muttering that he can never locate a better term for anything. He also likes nothing better than comparing a stack of work to a water tank and saying the word 'fundamentally' over and over again.

The_WalrusThe_Walrus [Member]
http://www.doctor-dark.co.uk
2008-02-28 @ 15:12

I hope the dirty sods were not "touching base" with each other.

ging [Visitor]

2008-02-28 @ 15:24

Working with such ignorant individuals is endangering your intellectual health. People who have to use such appalling biz speak generally are the types who live for meetings filling their days with such events so as to avoid showing that they are actually incapable of any real creative work, sadly getting away with this indefinitely. They talk about big ideas, initialising huge projects, about which they have no idea, then manage it into the ground, bury it and then talk it up in such away that they still look great, hence keeping the cycle of destruction in an infinite loop of abysmal decline as they get to move on to their next great big revolutionary initiative that any fool (a fool being several leaps in mental capacity above these idiots) could see was going to go the same way due to ill conception and lack of management capability wasting another £x (add a naught for every year the buffoon has been in the job).

Monty Christo [Visitor]

2008-02-28 @ 19:29

Hello,

My current favourite is the "Deep Dive," this is a meeting within which one looks at an idea in all its miniscule details to make sure it is not a s**t idea. Which it almost always is. This is definitely different to a "Hot House" (which is a "Deep Dive" that is situated off site and usually at a nice hotel - only managers get to go to these) and a "Scrum Call" (which is a "Deep Dive" with more shouting and arguing utilising the unhappy medium of a conference call).

I tend to take a very cynical point of view and generally point out the problems in the ideas people come up with, you might say that I am an uber realist. Becuase of this people keep telling me that I should embrace "blue sky thinking" but I politely refuse.

One of these ideas was to arrange a priority system whereby the most important tasks are prioritised above the menial. I was quick to point out the flaws in the system but the "powers that be" pressed ahead with the ill advised scheme. Initially it was P1, P2 and P3 (P standing rather comically for Priority). Then, though, someone came up with a task that was so urgent that it was more important than P1, this was christened PX. More recently there have been tasks so urgent that they are more important than the PX, these are now CODE RED. Now the only priorities that are used are P1, PX and CODE RED. I wonder if anyone can spot the flaw in this arrangement...

BrunoJazzBrunoJazz [Member]
2008-02-29 @ 16:27

Ciao! Hey soun like Marty fram the Pret a Manger. He was a lacy preek - a fuckface pig preek. He know for how the gives tork or half the time for personalities and kindness.

Ciao, Bruno.

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