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Engines running (up/down)
Used to describe whether a file/web server is online or not. Example: "The engines are up and running, full steam ahead!" Yet another sorry attempt to make a bland lifeless job more exciting and failing miserably. |
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EOD / BOD
End of Day / Beginning of Day. Settling into the corporate culture - EOL. Do the math. |
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executive summary
Just a nauseating way to say, "Make it about a third-grade level." |
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fire drill
Usually an early morning or late afternoon cluster F. This is when your boss has created or accepted a task that is not only unnecessary in the grand scheme of things, but requested under an often impossible timeline - that timeline being NOW. Dance monkey, dance. |
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firefighting
When a team tries to finish off ("rescue") a project that is extremely late or extremely over-budget, or is just generally going wrong. |
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Fires
Substitute for "problems", small or large.
"We have a few fires we have to put out, but overall the application is a go."
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"The new application is causing a lot of fires to put out. I think we need to revisit it or purge it." |
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firewall
Nope, not a software or hardware firewall, this refers to something blocking a project or keeping something else in the office from being completed.
"That report is a major firewall for this project. Let's get it done and out so we can move forward." |
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firing on all cylinders
Car speak which transformed into sports speak which transformed into corporate speak - the most heinous of offenses. Usually used when describing a team's "coming together" and "getting the job done." Miniature corporate wood results from anything firing on all cylinders. |
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focus
Concentration on a single task. This rarely lasts more than a few hours even when jealously guarded. |
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forecast
Budgeting usually involving a resource's time, but also relating to monetary cost for the company. |
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forward-thinking
I may not get it, but can thinking really occur in any particular direction? What about thinking in a dimension? Or does thinking just occur. This can get very philosophical. |
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framework
Rough plan for a new idea, to be built upon in the future by endless meetings and bullshit sessions. |
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full court press
A longer-term fire drill. Usually refers to the end of a project when the team is nowhere near having it completed and it seems impossible that it will get done on time. "Full court press" is really code for "you'll be working 70 hours per week for the next month". |
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funnel harvest
I have my guesses as to the true meaning of this one, but honestly I'm not really sure. Not sure I really want to know anyway. Taking it in context I assume it means to handle what comes easily/quickly first. If you have a better idea let me know. I'm not spending any more time on this one, I'm feeling faint. |
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FYI
For your information. |
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