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3.2 KiB
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59 lines
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MANAGERESE ENGINEERESE
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Adjust schedule Slip schedule
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Advise Order
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Ambitious Unlikely
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Aggressive Very unlikely
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Challenge Frustration; a dirty job nobody wants
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Compatibility Impossibility (see "Transparent change")
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Contribution Anything a manager likes
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Controlled introduction Let the customer do the CA
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Couldn't reach consensus 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 Unstable
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Elevated to mgt. level Dead
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Encouraged Ordered
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Encouraging process No tangible results
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Exciting Frightening
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Functionally complete Can do something that appears to work for
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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 Nobody remembers why
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Inappropriate Stupid (see "Non-optimal" and "Stupid")
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Individual contributer Regular grunt engineer
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Interesting Bear in mind the Chinese curse "May you
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live in interesting times"
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Issue Problem (see "Opportunity")
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Learning experience Mistake (see "Growth opportunity")
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Less than candid Baldface lie
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Leverage Borrowing someone else's problem
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New opportunity Surprise
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Non-optimal Inappropriate
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Opportunity Problem
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Pessimistic Most likely to occur
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Positioning problem No one will buy it
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Power down Trip over the power-cord
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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;
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otherwise: start again
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Resource constrained Not getting done (see "Time constrained")
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Revision Same software version but from another tape
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Richness Overwhelming complexity
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Scenario Fairy tale
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Significantly reduced subset Castrated
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Stable Stagnant
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Strategy What we tell ourselves we are going to do
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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
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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
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will not occur
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Transparent change A change which introduces only subtle problems
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We You
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