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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Robust soution to me mean something a little different. I think about a solution that is fast from a performance perspective. Also a sulution that resolves a long term problem vs short term. One that is easy to maintain as well. Sometime robust can also mean how you defined it as well.
By: Mark on August 22, 2010
at 6:01 pm