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Annoying Phrases in IT

By John | December 19, 2008

Yesterday I posted a tweet asking for the most annoying phrases that are used in IT.  The idea came from a post titled “The ten most annoying phrases in academic technology.“  I thought this would make a great twitter question.  I got this idea from James Governor, @monkchips, of posting a question on twitter then blogging the responses.  So I thought I would give it a try.  Here are some of my favorites from the aforementioned post:

Then in my twitter post I started the ball rolling with the following:

Here are some of the responses I received from twitter.

@kefoster “outside the box”

@techpr leverage, vertical, convergent (anything -gent, really), would be my .02

@cathcam re 10 words… how about clouds.. should use what they mean not some abstracted, meaningless marketing terminology

@Robadler game-changing, revolutionary

@techpr Oh and can we be done with “roadmap” now? (I asked dev: use “flight plan” since we’re ‘computing in the clouds’ or whatever)

@jgehlbach cloud

@jrep if everyone else already agreed with your recommendations, there’d be no point in recommending them!

@AGuyNamedFrank what about words that should be used more often? I.e. Plethora, echelon, or superfluous?

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2 Responses to “Annoying Phrases in IT”

  1. alon Ben-Shoshan Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Number one on my list: “End to End”
    “root cause analysis” is also kind of annoying..

  2. Roland Judas Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    Nice compilation. I like most terms and would like to add “Business/IT alignment” which is very popular here in Germany. Not sure if this is true for the US.
    Roland

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