Cunning Acronyms

[TheFaQQer]

I'm reading the process flows for my new project () at the moment, and I've just found out the acronym that they are using for our team.

I'm now officially a member of the "BAD - Solution Team".

At least I can aim to live up to the team name now.

[BA to the Stars]

I once worked in the Programme Management Team (which was also sometimes refered to a Programme Management Services).

The Team Manager said once the acronym was pointed out came up with a potential team slogan - "We may be a pain but you're always glad to see us"

[oracleslave]

I'm reading the process flows for my new project () at the moment, and I've just found out the acronym that they are using for our team.

I'm now officially a member of the "BAD - Solution Team".

At least I can aim to live up to the team name now.

Business Adoption Deployment?

[TheFaQQer]

Business Adoption Deployment?

No idea! There's no explanation of them, it's just BAD.

Used to be the "BAD Work Stream" which says enough.

[oracleslave]

No idea! There's no explanation of them, it's just BAD.

Used to be the "BAD Work Stream" which says enough.

We have BAD and BAT streams

Business Adoption and Deployment
Build and Test

[FiveTimes]

We have a NIT team - Network Integration Team

[BoredBloke]

Here are a few
TIT Title
TIT Tactical Intelligence Team (Mad TV)
TIT Taste in Television (Married with Children)
TIT Teacher in Training
TIT Technician Induced Trouble
TIT Tenchi In Tokyo (anime)
TIT Tennessee Institute of Technology
TIT Ternary Digit
TIT The Internet Times
TIT This Is Terrible
TIT This Is Thailand (Bangkok Post)
TIT This Is True
TIT Time in Transit
TIT Titus
TIT Tokyo Institute of Technology
TIT Topkatours International Travel (Istanbul, Turkey)
TIT Torpedo Impulse Tank
TIT Total Information Technology (Robin Williams)
TIT Travel in Taiwan (magazine)
TIT Triangle Inequality Theorem (algebra and euclidean geometry)
TIT Trotter's International Trading
TIT Trotters Independent Trading
TIT Tugaya Institute of Technology
TIT Turbine Inlet Temperature

WANK Worms Against Nuclear Killers (worm virus released on the VMX network SPAN in October 1989)

Acronym Definition
CRAP Canadian Reform Alliance Party (now Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance)
CRAP Carrying Resentments Against People (12 step recovery)
CRAP Cheap Redundant Assorted Products
CRAP Citizens Raging Against Phones (Grand Theft Auto 3)
CRAP Citizens Revolt Against Poop
CRAP Cloudy Reporting Accounting Principles
CRAP Computerized Response Audience Poll
CRAP Consumer Research and Planning
CRAP Content Restriction and Punishment (aka Digital Rights Management; coined by Richard Stallman)
CRAP Content Restriction Annulment and Protection (aka Digital Rights Management; coined by David Berlind)
CRAP Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity (design principles)
CRAP County Rural Addressing Project
CRAP Courts, Roads, Avenues, and Places (mnemonic for East-West Streets in Miami)
CRAP Coventry Residents Against Phish
CRAP Cut Rate Auto Parts (auto parts distribution chain Olympia, Washington)

PUFF Pulsed Ultra High Flux
SLAG Safe Launch Angle Gate
CRAPS Common Radio Access Protocol Set
TURD Timed Universal Rearward Destroyer
JUGS James Watt Undergraduate Society (Birmingham University)
PLEB People's Law Enforcement Board (Philippines)
PLEB Pocket Linux Embedded Box

FART Fair & Accurate Reporting on Television (Daily Show)
FART Farmers Against Ridiculous Taxes (New Zealand)
FART Fast Action Response Team
FART Fast Armed Response Team (British, never used after realizing what this spelled) :-)
FART Fathers Against Radical Teenagers (popular bumper sticker)
FART Fathers Against Rude Television (Futurama cartoon)
FART Federal Acronym Registration Team (The Daily Show)
FART Fire Alarm Response Team
FART Fire And Rappeller Training/Tactics
FART Fire and Rescue Team
FART Florida Association of Respiratory Therapists
FART Fort Augustus Rally Team
FART Fresh Air Ram Technology

TWAT Tactical Women's Alert Team (Cheech & Chong skit)
TWAT The War Against Terrorism
TWAT The Warm As Toast (cafe in Cardiff, Wales, UK)
TWAT The Western Area Tourers (motorcycle club)
TWAT The Word Association Thread (game)
TWAT There Was A Time (Guns n' Roses song title)
TWAT There We Are Then
TWAT Traveling-Wave Amplifier Tube

BITCH Babe In Total Control of Herself
BITCH Birds in the City of Hollywood (MTV Jackass)
BITCH Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity

[Bluebird]

http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms

[wendigo100]

Here are a few

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PUFF Pulsed Ultra High Flux

Should this be:

PUFF Dyslexic University Student Fizzissists

?

[TheFaQQer]

One of the product codes for a leather holder for a Sony phone ends TW-AT which surely can't be an accident.