Meaningless product descriptions

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GlennR May 2021 9:02pm, 12 May 2021 56,972 posts	0 GlennR Silos require rather more organisation than anything we’re capable of.
quimby May 2021 11:19pm, 12 May 2021 4,777 posts	0 quimby Agile here means "do it quick, no documentation, no handover, run away laughing and let the project manager tick their box whilst the IT Operations team gently weep".
Oscar the Grouch May 2021 7:18am, 13 May 2021 3,037 posts	0 Oscar the Grouch It's the antithesis of PRINCE2, which is completely the other way... agree that agile as applied locally is, erm, fluid! Much talk of sprints and scrums to try to make it seem structured.
GregP May 2021 8:19am, 13 May 2021 126,657 posts	0 GregP Scrum aside, "agile" at my place means "not having your own desk".
Red Squirrel May 2021 9:36am, 13 May 2021 21,879 posts	0 Red Squirrel There might be an animal called an agile ... ? A goat-antelope?
Red Squirrel May 2021 9:40am, 13 May 2021 21,880 posts	0 Red Squirrel Snippet from an email sent to work today: "given powers to bake all this into the regulatory architecture" Bake?!
GregP May 2021 9:41am, 13 May 2021 126,666 posts	0 GregP That's splendid. Go share it on the C Block thread
Oscar the Grouch May 2021 9:49am, 13 May 2021 3,039 posts	0 Oscar the Grouch Oh yes. Every good architect knows you bake your buildings. Just ask Hansel and Gretel
EatSleepRunRePete May 2021 5:11pm, 18 May 2021 6 posts	0 EatSleepRunRePete Bake is probably more acceptable these days than "roll your own" ... but both sound like they come from those opensource bedroom "coders"
Red Squirrel May 2021 5:38pm, 18 May 2021 21,889 posts	0 Red Squirrel Urgh. Was there really a saying "roll your own"? In terms of what? Does anyone remember when corporate twats used to talk about "sexy" reports. Boaks