(1). A specialist … well … someone who believes he’s a specialist. Really, just a guy who only knows how to do one thing.
“Look, we’re ankle doctors here. We sell RV insurance. That’s it.”
Ankle Doctor
RANDOM LINGO
Alternative Workflow
(1). A way of saying “work-around”, but really mean “our product is broken”.
“Thanks for jumping on this call, everyone. So, it looks like the level of effort to update the commission accounting system came in a bit higher than we expected, so we’ve developed an alternative workflow to get us to the same place. Commissions accrue daily, so this will need to be implemented after business each day.”
Props to Eric for the submission!
Analysis Paralysis
(1). An alliterative term describing the cessation of progress on a project due to over-thinking and endless discussion.
“Boy, this is the seventh conference call we’ve had this week on this! Have you ever seen more analysis paralysis in your life?!”