Bad product name anecdote... I used to work for Rogue Wave Software, who had a product called "Software Parts Manager" which was shortened to SPM, which was us

Bad product name anecdote... I used to work for Rogue Wave Software, who had a product called "Software Parts Manager" which was shortened to SPM, which was used to build code across a number of flavors of Unix, compilers, etc. The developers internally didn't seem to like it much. They called it SPAM instead of SPM. One day, I as the person managing the online commerce system, see there is an upgrade of one of the products. I scan the README file, and whoever wrote it internally constantly referenced "SPAM" in terms of how to use it. Anyway to this day, I am a stickler for making teams use the real name, and not the slang name. And if a team ever creates a derogatory name for a product, I see it as a huge red flag that the product itself has issues. But conversely if the slang name is a good one, it's worth considering making that the official or openly fun/positive unofficial name.