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Are they Ex-Army they tend to use the TLA SME to mean Subject Matter Experts
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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...
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I've been using SME for Subject Matter Expert since the late 1990s. I'm not going to go to the garage and see if I've still got my HR textbooks from that period, but personally I don't get "Small-medium enterprises" as a concept or an acronym - the whole thing is a buzzword that is meaningless, and then to co-opt a well established, very specific, acronym for it is just bollocks.
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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.