Crap 'Buzzwords'

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"one pager"

(Often guilty myself, but the phrase just grates...)

I was briefed to design a one pager recently. It was 4 pages long…

My colleague consistently produces a ‘one slider’ slide that is 6 slides long.

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Out of curiosity what would you prefer?

Summary?

Perfect, a single traditional word free of any bullshit.

Plus I guess we've established that one-pagers often aren't one page long.

But that drops the length constraint, which is critical. It's a one-page summary.

Brief….. It’s brief

Have we done “gifted” instead of gave/given yet?

That’s a scrape down the blackboard in my brain

Solutionize.

I get that it's one word instead of two for problem solve. But it's definitely a fuck load more syllables. I've never heard anyone say it naturaly or effortlessly. It always comes across as clunky and forced.

I've never seen it written in an comms either.

Although my business analyst colleagues and I used it a negative sense, to mean roughly:

'trying to (or being asked/forced to) design the solution when your job is only to research the problem and articulate the requirements'.

Edit: similarly, https://www.iltanet.org/blogs/michael-ertel1/2021/07/26/whats-your-problem-dont-solutionize

Solutionizing is when you create a solution, but the problem your solution is trying to solve has not been defined or, even worse, might not even exist. This happens when you make presumptions about what a problem may (or may not) be, and then you create a solution without considering the actual problem—or even ignoring that no actual problem exists.

If I had to guess the meaning of that word outside the context of this thread I would 100% have gone with your version

OK. I possibly stand corrected. As I yesterday I over heard it in the context of someone telling their audience that they weren't being asked to solutionize.

Interesting article.

My partner just now while trying to decide whether to upgrade to another iPhone or go android.

“I’d rather upskill myself on a platform I’m familiar with at this point”

Ooof
Grounds for dismissal right there

SME - turns out people aren't talking about small-medium enterprises but subject matter experts.

Fuck knows why people have tried to co-opt such a well-established acronym. Also, it just seems to get used when expert would be perfectly sufficient, no-one is thinking that the expert being brought in has an expertise in a totally different area.

"DNA" when commentators talk about the way a football team plays. Also "identity".

Are they Ex-Army they tend to use the TLA SME to mean Subject Matter Experts

I think 'Subject Matter Expert' escaped from PRINCE2 project management terminology (or similar), where it has a specific meaning: 'a project stakeholder due to knowledge, not seniority or responsibility'.

I agree though. 'Domain expert' is another one...

Hot from the Teams inbox.

just wanted to socialize an idea with you

The z is the cherry on top..

One could memorialize and socialize

Aka send out the bloody minutes

The guy then asked how pronounce my name, so should've asked him to translate his message first.

'Teamship' is creeping in at work. Had to attend a 'building teamship' event yesterday.