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[i]'What we need to do is take a fuzzy topic and get to granularity'[/i]
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We need to ditch the waterwings and dive in.
I'm hearing a lot of Americans using edification instead of education.
Making things more or less granular is popular in my office too. As is 'gripping' things.
I'll pop that in the ideas fridge and snack on it later.
when you get really granular can you grip it?
If you don't get that get your upward mobility documents in checks and Fox trot oscar
Not really management speak, but how about the way apparently everyone starts and answer to a question or an explanation with "So..."
Gets up my pipe, so it does.
How about '....socialising the solution...'
And apparently Capability is the topic of the decade?.
I'm hearing a lot of Americans using edification instead of education.
You must remember that a lot of Americans are still lost in the 17th century.
everything at our place is about 'engaging' with clients / co-workers / processes (all of which must be very 'robust') and starting dialogues - rather than just speaking to people / doing something
And apparently Capability is the topic of the decade?.
This.
Also 'fundamentally', used between every other word in a sentence.
To counter this, we've got a big schools science event on today, I've been going around telling all concerned that it's *in brilliant. Renishaw have brought the printed titanium Empire bike and a load of demo pieces, going to see if I can blag a go on it later. *in brilliant. I need to go back and see if I got away with getting another company to 3D print me a glow-in-the-dark namebadge that says BAWBAG. [i]****in brilliant[/i]
Our client likes us to have a lot of granularity, top-slicing and wants us to consume our own smoke.
No, me neither.
Yes but you are Scottish Northwind and expected to swear like trainspotting
"take it to Z-space"
take it to Z-space
What does that mean? I might have to admit to having a problem with my Sticky-Z at the moment, but that's not really for this place.
I worked on a project recently where we spent some quite considerable time trying to quantify the Unknown-Unknowns.....
Minutes after being told "don't discuss this with anyone" I get an email from the SMT saying "we should all strive to be as transparent as possible"
Made me chuckle
I'm a long time pacifist, I suppose in many ways I'm a bit of ageing hippie.
But I had a boss who used to communicate by testiculating and trotting out terms like "granularity" and "chunk it up".
I wanted to punch them in the face.
a glow-in-the-dark namebadge that says BAWBAG
CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEA ALERT 💡
we need to spin up a team for this
i also have noticed members of staff become 'Resources', and now FTEs (full time employees), instead of 'People'. It really annoys me.
Granularity is an acceptable word to use if you're talking about level of detail.
that phrase he used is horrible though 🙂
oh, and another pet hate of mine is "capturing" something as in -
me: i know this is a bit off topic, i think we should do X....
Boss: that's a good idea, why don't you capture that and play it back later
me: you mean write it down and tell you about it in a bit?
boss: err...yes
😯But I had a boss who used to communicate by testiculating
Talking bollocks, one presumes.
Everyone is always on a journey as well. God knows when they'll get there....
Granularity is an acceptable word to use
no it isn't.
We develop bespoke software to run our business and we use an agile process (which is quite americanised) this leads to phrases like:
"Great idea - add it to the backlog and get it prioritised" i.e. chuck it on the bottom of the pile
"Great idea - get it in a sprint and lets get a MVP out" i.e. do it now but only a very poor basic version
"We need to groom our backlog" - just sound creepy to a British ear!
Minutes after being told "don't discuss this with anyone" I get an email from the SMT saying "we should all strive to be as transparent as possible"
What's an SMT? 🙂
I can't help feeling that the reason the economy's bust is because no-one in work actually has any idea what anyone else is talking about anymore, so we're all walking around in worlds of our own having no real clue what anyone else does or what the overall plan is anymore, therefore nothing's co-ordinated and it's all fallen apart as a result...
I bet they didn't use this kind of language back when we had a manufacturing sector and Britain was Great 😉
@brooess Senior Management Team 🙂
Our industry/business is full of acronyms sometime more than one for the same thing! 🙁
What's an SMT
Senior Management Team.
Welcome to TLA in education...It is rife with it.
We have GIRFEC as the in acronym and phrase.
If you want to be really annoying start pronouncing words from any "TLA Acronyms" you use.
Has this car got an ESP program and ABS system?
we use an agile process
What's an agile process? Apart from me during a rapid and unplanned dismount.
aP - Member"take it to Z-space"
What does that mean?
i have no idea, but i've heard some project managers using it.
Only if it's genuinely more descriptive than "overview", "very" etc when talking about level of detailpeterfile - Member
Granularity is an acceptable word to use if you're talking about level of detail
I mean, a grain of sand is quite fine detail if you're in a desert but there's an awful lot of atoms in each one if you look harder
"service users" or "clients"
It's a hospital, they're called PATIENTS you ****ing half-wit
Only if it's genuinely more descriptive than "overview", "very" etc when talking about level of detail
Aye, I wouldn't expect to hear "The recent article in The Sun on the best sauce to have with your bacon sandwiches was lacking in granularity" 🙂
An organisation that I do a lot of work for have an 800 page Acronomicon.
I heard a tale about granularity. May be apocryphal, but....
Some wag at Barclays decided to use it as much as possible to poke fun at all the other bullshit neologisms in use at the bank.
Within weeks everyone else was using it seriously!
We got asked to "think the unthinkable" last week. I don't know what the unthinkable is so I'm not sure how to think it. But if it's unthinkable to start with then surely it's impossible to think it in the first place? Eh?
Anyone else noticed it's usually the least competent and stupidest people you work with who use this kind of language the most?
you could take it all a step further peterfile - grancon1, 2 etc for different requirements. All the way up to full blinded tastings in the company canteen
We've been asked to rework a UI recently, so like it is now "... but on [b][u]Steriods[/u][/b] ..."
Sure, I'll get right onto that.
SMT is now old hat. SLT is where it's at.
We have an AJG (acronyms and jargon glossary) on our Intranet "dashboard".....
Helps us to identify which "toolkit" we need to use.