IT industry words or phrases that make your heart sink....

[eludea]

"Reach out to"....

[Project Monkey]

It's just...

[Project Monkey]

Scrum Master

Planning Poker

"Planning Poker" brilliant! Never heared it before, but certainly going to use it from now on.

[jbond007]

Already been done but I am currently invited to a daily...

Stand up

...with 51 other people. FFS!

..and how long does this stand up last ? and where would they hold this standup ? Surely not at someone's desk

[Project Monkey]

"the art of the possible"


and


"articulate"

[Chuck]

..and how long does this stand up last ? and where would they hold this standup ? Surely not at someone's desk

It's in one of the large meeting rooms. I don't bother going. I assume that with that many people there I won't be missed.

Given how this place works, the meeting slot will have finished before all the attendees have bothered to turn up for it.

[MrMarkyMark]

"Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions"

I believe that was from an old IBM advert

[Sysman]

Ghost Dimension

Never heard of that one.

WTF is it?

[tomtomagain]

...... so we've just about covered the entire vocabulary of corporate-speak.

Here's a question :

Are there any words or phrases that make your heart jump with joy? **


** Any responses about, "rate-rises", "renewals", "invoice payments" are too obvious and you will be deducted points for unoriginality.

[MrMarkyMark]

A permy saying "I got a bad performance review because of you."

Maybe, he shouldn't have taken me on