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Managerese
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Engineerese
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Adjust
schedule
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Slip
schedule
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Advise
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Order
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Ambitious
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Unlikely
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Agressive
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Very
Unlikely
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Challenge
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Frustration;
a dirty job nobody wants
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Compatibility
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Impossibility
(see "Transparent change")
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Contribution
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Anything
a manager likes
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Controlled
introduction
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Let
the customer do the CA
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Couldn't
reach consensus
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Total
disagreement
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Critical
path
|
Something
that only a short project can be on
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Diagnostics
|
Something
that might give us a clue
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Dynamic
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Unstable
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Elevated
to mgt. level
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Dead
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Encouraged
|
Ordered
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Encouraging
process
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No
tangible results
|
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Exciting
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Frightening
|
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Functionally
complete
|
Can
do something that appears to work for any feature
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Growth
opportunity
|
Learning
experience
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Helping
people
|
Telling
people what to do
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Historical
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Nobody
remembers why
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Inappropriate
|
Stupid
(see "Non-optimal" and "Stupid")
|
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Individual
contributor
|
Regular
grunt engineer
|
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Interesting
|
Bear
in mind the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times"
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Issue
|
Problem
(see "Opportunity")
|
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Learning
experience
|
Mistake
(see "Growth opportunity")
|
|
Less
than candid
|
Boldface
lie
|
|
Leverage
|
Borrowing
someone else's problem
|
|
New
opportunity
|
Surprise
|
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Non-optimal
|
Inappropriate
|
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Opportunity
|
Problem
|
|
Pessimistic
|
Most
likely to occur
|
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Positioning
problem
|
No
one will buy it
|
|
Power
down
|
Trip
over the power-cord
|
|
Project
transfer
|
Start
project over again
|
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Quality
|
Japanese;
otherwise not well defined
|
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Redirected
|
In
some contexts: cancelled; otherwise: start again
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Resource
constrained
|
Not
getting done (see "Time constrained")
|
|
Revision
|
Same
software version but from another tape
|
|
Richness
|
Overwhelming
complexity
|
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Scenario
|
Fairy
tale
|
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Significantly
reduced subset
|
Castrated
|
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Stable
|
Stagnant
|
|
Strategy
|
What
we tell ourselves we are going to do
|
|
Strong
personality
|
Intolerably
obnoxious
|
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Strongly
encouraged
|
Ordered
on pain of death (see "Encouraged")
|
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Stupid
|
Incredibly
stupid (see "Inappropriate")
|
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Suboptimal
|
Inappropriate
|
|
Tactical
plan
|
What
our customers tell us we are going to do
|
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Time
constrained
|
Already
too late (see "Resource constrained")
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Time
frame
|
A
period of time in which something will not occur
|
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Transparent
change
|
A
change which introduces only subtle problems
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We
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You
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