to be utterly sick of this maddeningly nonsensical bit of corporate wankspeak?

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What is with the phrase "the piece" ... for example, "it's the piece around engagement with stakeholders" ... "the piece on communicating key messages" ... "the piece about maximizing outputs". IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.

😂

You guys most work in Marketing...

Oh yes, granular detail.
Feck off

Oh, good God, yes! That one is awful.

BBC news reporters all seem to deliver "pieces" nowadays instead of reports. I don't know why this grates on me so hard, but it does!

Onboarding has been an official thing/process for a while now, when referring to new employees or vendors/clients.
I’m fine with it, but lately I’ve been hearing about pre-boarding and that I can’t get on board with.

I agree with most posts here, but not this. Pretending to be sailors makes EVERYTHING more exciting.

In a meeting on Monday and someone used this.
I visibly winced

No need!

I don't think we've had a 'pivot' yet?

Also, 'agile' is not WFH - it's a way of working to deliver in bite sized pieces. (And yes, I am aware that that makes me sound like a wanker)

"Segway" is actually spelled "segue."
segue
/ˈsɛɡweɪ/
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verb
verb: segue; 3rd person present: segues; past tense: segued; past participle: segued; gerund or present participle: segueing
(in music and film) move without interruption from one piece of music or scene to another.
"allow one song to segue into the next"
move or shift from one role, state, or condition to another.
"from the humour magazine, the New York-born artist segued into producing films"
noun
noun: segue; plural noun: segues
an uninterrupted transition from one piece of music or film scene to another.
a transition from one role, state, or condition to another.
"that's actually a perfect segue into my next question"
Origin

Italian, literally ‘follows’.

But that is a common universally used term.

Agile PM tool. Standard.

Three words vs one. Easy.

Standard terminology for new starters.

You don't understand it then.

Standard project management framework

It's a normal word being used in a context.

The point wincarwoo is that these so called industry terms are still a load of corporate wankspeak. Being industry terns doesn’t make them less so.

I’m going to use as many of these as possible at work this week 😂

There was a point I was thinking of pursuing a career in project management. So glad I didn’t now, I would struggle to keep a straight face at all the wanky lingo

@wincarwoo they may be standard to you, but I reserve the right to clutch my cringe gland in despair when I hear them.

'Circling back to your point' on pieces and spaces, I raise you 'organic team development' and 'socialising risk' as well as ensuring you have a 'critical friend' at work.
My team and i always have to have a debrief after a meeting with my boss's boss to see if we can work out what he was actually talking about.
I do love 'wankspeak' though! I'm stealing it!!🤣🤣

I disagree. Many are standard terms for specific things. However "circle back" is corporate bs

Weird. PM terms have specific meanings. Wait til you find out how GitHub got its name.

Or a scrum master 😂