Crap 'Buzzwords'

'Woke', 'wokeness'

Please tell me you haven't heard that in a business meeting...

"Salon dinner"

DA. FUK.

'swimlane'

That project is being taken forward in a different swimlane.

That's ok for me, because swimlane diagrams actually look like lanes in a swimming pool. If they didn't I'd protest.

Yeah we have swimlanes on our jira board. It's a pass.

Ditto, it's a thing.

Sounds a bit American. Does it mean "stream of work"?

Was not aware how deep set this way to explain something displayed diagramatically in a row had become. Isn't it just a "workstream" (buzzword from the 80's?)

Does it mean "stream of work"?

Kind of. It's more about the diagram than the workstream.

Looky:

But swimming lanes are isolated. Nothing gets passed between them.

I declare this buzzword unusable.

But swimming lanes are isolated. Nothing gets passed between them.

Except maybe water?

Maybe.

You can swim under the ropes.

No. That's forbidden.

Only when you realise you're not good enough for the fast lane.

in no way is 'swimlanes' acceptable

Well, as per @Drakien, 'swimlane diagram' is one of those jargon terms I do reluctantly use, having accepted that 'cross functional process chart' is too unwieldy.

I wouldn't use 'swimlane' outside a diagram though. As per the example, it doesn't imply a stream of work, but the slice of a process which is carried out by one function/dept/team.

Can we agree though, that the analogy of a swimming pool/race doesn't work, outside the fact that it's something that occurs in thin stripes?

If the diagram is supposed to indicate how tasks are passed around between teams or how they cooperate, then you couldn't really pick a worse analogue than swimmers in separate lanes.

Yes correct I win the internet.

Agree, it's a visual analogy only. Please do come up with a better term.

Longdrop chart.

... so is that an analogy to execution by hanging, rustic outdoor toilets, or mudguard-compatible brake calipers?

Rustic outdoor toilets. A column of shit progressing down towards the bottom.

It's just a flowchart with some embellishment. So I reckon "phlo-chart".