Ultimate buzzword phrase
 

I read an e-mail a few days ago from one of my bosses. My head is still spinning.
He has single-handledly coined the ultimate buzzword phrase, one that will never be topped. Drum roll ........ here it is:

"Re: resourced basis backlog manpower loading models".

I'm surprised my head didn't just up and explode after reading that e-mail.
I would provide more info to put it in context, but there is no context. That phrase had absolutely nothing to do with anything. Simply amazing. He makes about $150k a year plus bonus/perks.

Is it bigger than a loaf of bread?

Huh?

I like it, I got this gem the other day "Green-based Performance Biased" - not sure what the intent of that one is either.

Guess you had to be there.

anybody have the gut's to go back and ask WTF does this mean...


Rika

Simple, that one means "add some environmental-granola lingo to our normal product to hook the enviro-suckers."

Get on it, stat.:D

Not me, but I did write it across the top of the whiteboard in my office. He's bound to see it sooner or later.

Just found the money line for the new veggie based hydraulic fluid! Thanks Len!

You know he sat up all night thinking that up just to see the look on peoples' faces...

A "Dilbert Moment", Sammy.

Good thing we still study grammar, Latin and critical thinking at all levels of education.:rolleyes:

I have no idea WTF he just said.

I have no idea what that means.

I probably don't share you guys' disdain for buzzwords and buzz phrases. Sure, they can be taken to ridiculous extremes. And of course, Office Space has made them funny. But I hear, and use, some of them all the time. I might tell somebody about a series of conversations in which I set the stage for him/her to get a good reception when they talk to so-and-so. After telling them about that and suggesting they place the critical phone call, I might tell them I "Tee'd it up for you."

And so forth. Buzz words and phrases can be useful. Or they can be meaningless, like the one in the opening post of this thread.

In going forward, let's all make it our personal commitment to think outside the box so we don't have to have another Come to Jesus meeting.

I'm constrained to agree. We should partner in this and apologize for any inconvenience this thread may have caused.

You have created a true share of mind, with a great press trowards a work-out while embrassing the value share that brings us to bat and lays it on the line where the rubber meets the road.

I expected the collective experience trust here to partner and by means of that synergistic force, come to a collective consensus Re: the root cause meaning of the above-mentioned phrase.

On my cube wall is a chart showing all of the terms for iterative development invented on our project:

-Release
-Drop
-Track
-Package
-Iteration
-Wave
-Version
-Cluster
-Clump

On my white board, are the following quotes:

"Cluster and clump sound like something in my cat's litterbox!"

"I think they're trying to tell us this whole project is $h!t."

QUOTE: " Re: resourced basis backlog manpower loading models".
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Think of it as Chinese. You read from right to left.

What he's referring to are: computer simulations (models) of non-useable (backlog)man-hours (wasted) based on previously documented company history.

(He means ...you're all a bunch of loafers. Get to work!:p )