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September 06, 2006
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If you're a cubicle monkey who eats lunch al desko, you may already be familiar with office speak. If not, this article introduces extracts from Tony Thorne's essential jargon-busting guide.
You could even read the article - it wouldn't be like kicking dead whales down the beach.
One of the better suggestions, to avoid vanillacide, blanding or excessive blandwidth, is to use a techinique known as "wild-carding" which consists of giving your client (or boss, or interviewer!) a list containing your favoured suggestions, plus at least a couple of ultra-radical, even crazy solutions. In rejecting the most extreme, they are likely to compromise on something that is still fairly daring.
Posted by Mark at September 6, 2006 01:50 PM