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google is also aiming at recreating the frat environment for their 20-something workforce. apples and oranges. I'd lean more on private space for every team wo

google is also aiming at recreating the frat environment for their 20-something workforce. apples and oranges. I'd lean more on private space for every team working on a single deliverable, but that's just my preference.

rewqfdsa 12y ago
"Deliverable" is one of words that provokes a "nope" reaction from me. I am not a resource that produces deliverables. I am a human being.
- LoSboccacc 12y ago
  you're right, but at some point one needs to describe what a team do - I'm not a native English speaker, and I use what I learned. I accept alternatives, especially if they don't involve a ten word paraphrase of that.
  - rewqfdsa 12y ago
    How about "work on the same project"?
    - LoSboccacc 12y ago
      you can have multiple smaller teams working on different aspect of the same project, I've seen project with 50+ devs and I wouldn't put the full project on a single room. but I see your point, it works for small projects, I'll figure out something on those lines.
- icebraining 12y ago
  Why can't you be a human that produces deliverables? Seems like a weird hung up to have.
  - Symbiote 12y ago
    We have an ongoing joke about issuing 20p fines for using stupid phrases like, "going forward, I'm leveraging the stakeholders for additional resource to in-flight the next key deliverable". That one's worth at least £1.20. What's wrong with "I'll ask for another developer to work on this project"? This started with the observation that what's presently called "Human Resources" used to be called "Personnel" and before that simply the "Staff Department". A progression of euphemistic bullshit words. Letters and parcels are "deliverable". How about "task", or "feature", or "report", or just "thing".
    - icebraining 12y ago
      Fair enough; I'm all for mocking bullshit language, it's just that deliverable never striked me as such. Then again, I don't work in English-speaking corporations.

rewqfdsa 12y ago

"Deliverable" is one of words that provokes a "nope" reaction from me. I am not a resource that produces deliverables. I am a human being.

LoSboccacc 12y ago
you're right, but at some point one needs to describe what a team do - I'm not a native English speaker, and I use what I learned. I accept alternatives, especially if they don't involve a ten word paraphrase of that.
- rewqfdsa 12y ago
  How about "work on the same project"?
  - LoSboccacc 12y ago
    you can have multiple smaller teams working on different aspect of the same project, I've seen project with 50+ devs and I wouldn't put the full project on a single room. but I see your point, it works for small projects, I'll figure out something on those lines.
icebraining 12y ago
Why can't you be a human that produces deliverables? Seems like a weird hung up to have.
- Symbiote 12y ago
  We have an ongoing joke about issuing 20p fines for using stupid phrases like, "going forward, I'm leveraging the stakeholders for additional resource to in-flight the next key deliverable". That one's worth at least £1.20. What's wrong with "I'll ask for another developer to work on this project"? This started with the observation that what's presently called "Human Resources" used to be called "Personnel" and before that simply the "Staff Department". A progression of euphemistic bullshit words. Letters and parcels are "deliverable". How about "task", or "feature", or "report", or just "thing".
  - icebraining 12y ago
    Fair enough; I'm all for mocking bullshit language, it's just that deliverable never striked me as such. Then again, I don't work in English-speaking corporations.