{"id":1697,"date":"2013-02-04T14:29:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T12:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=1697\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:30:13","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-project-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-project-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>project language<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the <i>Helsingin Sanomat<\/i> newspaper released a great tool for making your own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzzword_bingo\">bullshit bingo<\/a>. This online resource even lets you add terms to bingo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hs.fi\/sivu\/bullshitbingo\/\">cards<\/a> for fields like media, IT, government, and business in general. Clearly we also need a card for <i>project management<\/i>. If I were making one, I\u2019d start with these terms: <i>project methodology, development program, coordinator, objective, implementation, developing performance, development know-how, engagement model, best practices, network of experts, project application, resources, functioning pattern, deliverable, operating environment, peer community<\/i>. Projects aim to do something in real life; that&#8217;s why they should describe their actions concretely, not vaguely. Managers justify such murky project language by saying it simply fulfills the sponsor\u2019s requirements. Similarly, sponsors supposedly require the abbreviation of the project\u2019s name, which explains freakish labels like <i>VeTeVT, eEtu, PEPPIII, JoPe<\/i>. If I were a sponsor, I would urge plain language instead of obscure project-management jargon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper released a great tool for making your own bullshit bingo. This online resource even lets you add terms to bingo cards for fields like media, IT, government, and business in general. Clearly we also need a card for project management. If I were making one, I\u2019d start with these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-english-en","category-wordoftheweek-en","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}