Managerese vs. Engineerese..contd…

Managerese

Engineerese

Scenario

Fairy tale

Significantly reduced subset

Castrated

Stable

Stagnant

Strategy

What we tell ourselves we are going to do

Strong personality

Intolerably obnoxious

Strongly encouraged

Ordered on pain of death (see "Encouraged")

Stupid

Incredibly stupid (see "Inappropriate")

Suboptimal

Inappropriate

Tactical plan

What our customers tell us we are going to do

Time constrained

Already too late (see "Resource constrained")

Time frame

A period of time in which something will not occur

Transparent change

A change which introduces only subtle problems

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