>EDIT: Also, the importance of asking stupid questions. The company I work for really, really loves acronyms; and different departments often have different na

>EDIT: Also, the importance of asking stupid questions. The company I work for really, really loves acronyms; and different departments often have different names for the same thing. An important early lesson I learned from a manager was to stop during meetings and ask what an acronym means. One of my biggest surprises was discovering that different people had different ideas about what the acronym stood for, and many people - including the people using them - simply had no idea at all.