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Define: "Boil the ocean"
What HR thinks it means:
Undertaking an impossible task or making a project unnecessarily broad.
What it actually means:
"A project scope written by someone who has never touched a command line in their life."
Use it in a meeting:
"Instead of fixing the one broken login button, the product owner decided to boil the ocean and force a rewrite of the entire authentication microservice."
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