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I agree 100%, I'm a product leader at Amazon, and if a meeting goes off the rails we will say "let's take that offline". I even inject things from my background
by kator 5y ago
I agree 100%, I'm a product leader at Amazon, and if a meeting goes off the rails we will say "let's take that offline". I even inject things from my background and end it with "let's connect offline". I've even told leaders higher up in my management chain "Let's not solution this here, we can schedule time for that if we agree on next steps". They don't mind, we're all busy, often very excited about what we're reading, and in free-flow feedback mode.
It's easy to get excited and run off topic a bit. Brining it back in actually shows a respect for everyone in the room. Not everyone in the meeting is interested in the random off the rails thread anyway, schedule a follow up and get the meeting back on track.
- oblio 5y ago> Let's not solution Ah, corporate language :-) Let's not solve this, solve.
- kator 5y agoWhen you are in a room with Solution Architects.. what do you say.. use the vernacular of your audience.
- oblio 5y agoI guess they should be renamed to Solve Architects, then :-p
- inopinatus 5y agoFormer AWS SA Manager here, my team had a standing joke about dissolving the problem.
- celticninja 5y agoor even worse solutionise/solutionising.
- hallway_monitor 5y agoConversating
- deanCommie 5y agoTo Solution = Discuss options, tradeoffs, identify next steps, working towards a possible solution. It's a transient state that leads to a solution eventually but not necessarily by the end of the first discussion To Solve: To identify a definitive solution immediately. Sure, you're not wrong, it's corporate-speak. But it does have some nuance.