Showing posts with label tuning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tuning. Show all posts

Thursday, November 1, 2012

That's less painful than the real PMO practice.

He said it was a tuning opportunity. Then he hit me with a fork.

I hate just throwing the word opportunity after everything to make it more palatable.  According to corporate wisdom, it's the opposite of strengths, as in here's a list of our strengths and opportunities, so when someone says there's an opportunity, it comes loaded with baggage in a corporate environment because the normal context of the word usually isn't positive.

Do you want to go to dinner?  I have a dinner opportunity for you.  Would you like a car?  How would you like a car opportunity?  Here's a new job.  Here's a new job opportunity.  Do you like my dog?  I don't have a dog, but I have a dog opportunity.  See...extraneous or causing diminution of the original phrase.  It denotes a lack of action.  Just say, "We're tuning."  If you're not sure whether to pursue it or not, then it's not an opportunity, it's not doing something.


Title: That's less painful than the real PMO practice.
Snarky: He said it was a tuning opportunity.  Then he hit me with a fork.