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irons in the fire
How many things you have going on at once. Typical use is, "My bandwidth is limited right now, Bob, I just have too many irons in the fire."
Similar to too many [blanks] in the hopper. |
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it falls in our bailiwick
The objective that the C's want achieived is part of our group's work (expertise) and some bodies in our group must be assigned to tackle it. |
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jumping-off point
Place to start from.
How many among us would like our boss to find his/her own jumping-off point? |
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keep the net out
To keep looking for answers or make it known you still need some info. "Yes, I really haven't gotten all the information we talked about at our last meeting. I'll keep the net out in case anything comes across my desk." |
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keep your eye on the prize
Essentially to stay focused on the end result. The idotic thing about this statement is that it infers that there's some reward at the end of the project. Between you and me, we know that's bullshit. I'm most familiar with the free pizza tactic. Yeah, we worked six months on this project and we get our regular pay plus pizza. If that's not motivational material I don't know what is. Throw me an f-ing bone here. How about a little incentive and I might actually try for your dumb ass. What kills me most is people who fall for this shit and get excited over $3 worth of free pizza. Get some damn self respect. |
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kick-off meeting
Yet another played-out sports analogy. This one is so old and commonplace I fear it doesn't get the attention it deserves. Well, I'm here to give it to you, you son-of-a-bitch. |
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knowledge transfer
For a resource to teach someone how to do something that only he or she knows how to do. Generally a corporation encourages knowledge transfer as much as possible since it makes it much easier to de-hire a resource whose knowledge has been completely transferred. Paradoxically, the project management system actually discourages knowledge transfer, since, with its strict capitalist model, there is no incentive for one resource to give another resource competitive skills. |
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KTA
Key Take Away |
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lap
To go around the table or room usually at a meeting to allow each peon their say. Yet another lame sports reference. |
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leading edge (or bleeding edge)
Management's misperception that they are somehow pioneering some great new technology or concept. Of course they almost never are and if they are it was the idea of one of their lowly lackeys anyway. Similar terms: "latest and greatest" "cutting edge" "pushing the envelope" |
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learning
A piece of information gained from some type of source. Like... "The recent marketing study uncovered some key learnings." I'm not sure it's even proper english. |
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legacy (software)
System, equipment, etc., that's past its prime. Usually something that could see sunset any time soon if some manager somewhere could find the resources and bucket to replace it. There's always talk about when this thing will see its last day, but it usually continues to exist on and on out of pure ineptness more than anything else. It's also usually some system that some tool wanted just a few years ago and thought would be the answer to the world's problems, but now is so woefullly out of date as to be laughable. Meaning, that it was surely out of date already a few years ago when some snake oil salesman conned them into purchasing the artifact. |
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level the playing field
Supposedly the ground wasn't even and now you have something, or plan to have something, to make you competitive or better than your competitors. |
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leverage
A longer word meaning "use." Since much of what a corporation actually has is wasted, managers like to put added emphasis on occasions when they actually use something they already have. |
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lifecycle
How long something lasts. Another term that's not bad on its own, but has been so overused as to really not mean anything any more. |
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