Consultant speak

I find myself using many of the same work phrases that I have picked up over the years as a consultant and thought it would be interesting to catalog them.  Here is what I can think of so far…

• Federated model – to share responsibility across many different areas
• A robust solution – something that has a lot of features
• Keeping our ducks in a row – making sure that the work is lined up
• Don’t want to boil the ocean – not trying to do too much
• Development opportunity – a performance problem with someone
• Bandwidth – capacity of a person to take on work (also known as looking what is  “on their plate”)
• Out of pocket – not available, although I never understood this one
• Low-hanging fruit – getting easy things done first
• Thinking outside of the box – being creative
• Folks – team members

Ok my ducks are in a row - now what?

I am sure that I missing some so please feel free to comment with them…

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