Crap 'Buzzwords'

Also a lot of people actioning things today but no one actually doing anything.

lot of people actioning things

me!

no one actually doing anything.

also me!

'could we get these revisionings for EOD today'

You mean edits/amendments and guess what that 'D' means...

revisionings

Possibly Diwali?

TBF 'for EOD tomorrow' would also make sense. Is it better or worse than 'close of play' though?

To me 'by close of play' did mean something specific - financial market closure, e.g. London Stock Exchange closes at 16:30. In contrast 'by end of day' meant "stay until you've finished it, so I can look at it however early I start tomorrow".

Read this and had no idea what it meant. Admittedly it was in a very specific thread I needn't read...but

In this case I think the lesson may have been you can be as Agile as you want, but if you start building and your platform isn't as scalable as you thought, or aspects aren't under your control (dependency hell), you get runaway technical debt.

Ironically it came from the user right there^^

I think that's less 'buzzwords', and more job-specific lingo.

It's jargon I think. Shorthand for complex concepts to a specific audience with assumed shared context is absolute nonsense to others.

Maybe something like '[When building a web application] it's fine to build a house on shifting sands, if your foundations are deep enough -- or it's a mobile home'.

In this case I think the lesson may have been you can be as Agile as you want, but if you start building and your platform isn't as scalable as you thought, or aspects aren't under your control (dependency hell), you get runaway technical debt.

You can use whatever fancy process you want to build the software, but if you don't plan properly (for more users than expected), or really consider what third party code you're depending on (and what each of those bits of third party code depend on, etc), you'll just keep building up a list of issues that will need solving at some point in the future.

'Agile' specifically referring to this shit.

That's a specific thing though.

Yes, that's the point, it's a specific thing, not some buzzword.

Close of play is fine. As long as everyone plays cricket.

The problem with 'close of play' is it 1800, or is it when the extra overs have been bowled, or is it once the natural light gives way to floodlight in poor conditions and nobody really knows what light meter reading the umpires took.

I usually just say 'stumps'.

(Everyone is as confused as before but I have a frisson that nobody else can carry!)

OK - the wording of your post made it seem like you were complaining about it.

Close of play is fine. /end

ftfy

Close of play is just another more colloquial way of saying COB.

As long as everyone plays cricket.

They won't get it in India

Oh yeah I am, I am not a fan. That's a completely different discussion though.

Close of play bit buzzy.

End of shift, surely will do?

"I need it done by [day]" is the non-buzzword version. Business people trying to sound more businessey...

The Guardian refers to 'big dick energy' today. I have not heard of this, nor do I possess it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2018/jun/27/ditch-the-big-dick-energy-charisma-doesnt-need-a-phallic-rebrand

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You could neither uphold nor bring down capitalism with your penis, nor even provide any modest underpinning for a social democratic mixed-market.

Classic