Having moved from engineering to management, I can attest that at least some of these terms have specific meanings where I work, except when they're abused. It'

Having moved from engineering to management, I can attest that at least some of these terms have specific meanings where I work, except when they're abused. It's just that they used to sound like nonsense when I weren't faced with management responsibilities. KT - the expectation is that the recipient should be able to perform the conductor's responsibilities after the knowledge transfer. Stakeholder - there is a very specific group of people (mostly VP and above) that fall into this category. They need to be "kept in the loop" (another bullshit word, I suppose) when major changes to features, resources or business strategy are made. ROI - for us, this boils down to a number, either in dollars or an expected change in a KPI (another bullshit term?) On the same page - when a meeting/mail thread is started with this intent, the idea is that multiple teams with different/conflicting priorities need to agree on something so that they won't later claim "why weren't we told about this?" Going forward - it's better than saying "from now on", which feels like a finger-wag to me Synergy - yup, it's mostly bullshit