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How about nouns as verbs? "The new dashboard will surface potential issues. If we find any ,I will calendar a meeting for the cross-functional group to workshop
by sangnoir 2y ago
How about nouns as verbs? "The new dashboard will surface potential issues. If we find any ,I will calendar a meeting for the cross-functional group to workshop the list, and task the relevant partner-teams to resolve"
- dingnuts 2y agosurface as a verb isn't office jargon. Submarines and whales surface.
- f30e3dfed1c9 2y agoThat's different: in "the whale surfaced," "surfaced" is an intransitive verb with no object. In "the dashboard surfaced potential issues," "surfaced" is a transitive verb with an object. The transitive verb is definitely business jargon.
- bityard 2y ago"Surface" has been a verb for a long time, particularly relevant to marine biologists and submariners, although obviously it's just a metaphor in an office setting, like "bubble up" would be. The others are on firmer ground as probably not good verbs.
- ilya_m 2y ago_Workshop_ is definitely a verb, as in "workshopping a play". Its meaning in performance arts is different from office use, but they are not too far apart.
- jfactorial 2y agoWhat's your opinion of "architect" as a verb? I was in a workshop once wherein the instructor paused everything to beratingly correct someone for 5 minutes on how you can't "architect" something because, he insisted, that word must only ever be a noun.
- chairmansteve 2y agoDesign is the right word. Architects design things. Buildings actually. Using the word at all in tech is pretentious.
- jfactorial 2y agoEventually someone is going to have to be the first person in tech to be pretentious. ;)
- DennisP 2y agoOr as the proposal finishes up, "we can action on our solve."