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Corporate Jargon Dictionary
Decode the nonsense. Click a buzzword below to see what HR thinks it means, versus what your boss actually means.
Action Item
Actionable
Agile methodology
Air-gapped
Alignment
As per my last email
At the end of the day
Band-aid solution
Bandwidth
Best practice
Bio Break
Bleeding edge
Blocked
Blue sky thinking
Boil the ocean
Brain dump
Bumping this
Burn rate
Buy-in
Cadence
CCing Manager for visibility
Change Advisory Board
Circle back
Core competency
Core hours
Deep Dive
Deliverable
Dogfooding
Double Click
Drink from the firehose
Ecosystem
Empower
For future reference
Friendly reminder
Game changer
Going forward
Granular
Hard stop
Heavy lifting
Herding cats
Hope this finds you well
In the weeds
ITIL
Just checking in
Key Performance Indicator
Let's park this
Let's sync on this
Let's table this
Level set
Leverage
Lift and shift
Low-hanging fruit
Minimum Viable Product
Mission critical
Move the goalposts
Move the needle
North Star
On-Prem
Open door policy
Optics
Out of pocket
Paradigm shift
Peel the onion
PI Planning
Ping me
Pivot
Please advise
Pushback
Put a pin in it
Quick win
Rightsize
Root Cause Analysis
Run it up the flagpole
Scalable
Scope creep
Scrum Master
Seamless
Silo
Single pane of glass
SLA
Soft launch
Sprints
Stakeholders
Stand-up
Synergy
Take it offline
Tech debt
The C-Suite
The Cloud
Think outside the box
Thought leader
Touch Base
Turnkey
Unpack
Value-add
Velocity
Vendor lock-in
Wheelhouse
Whiteboarding
Zero Trust