Geek Speak… (from: Marc Goldberg)
http://mgoldberg.typepad.com/occams_razor/2005/03/geek_speak.html
Great selection of geek speak, and it’s actual meaning, here are my top 10:
“It’ll be done ASAP.”
Translation: There is no schedule yet.
“That feature shouldn’t add any time to the schedule.”
Translation: There is no schedule yet.
“It can literally do anything you want it do.”
Translation: There is no spec yet.
“Take my word for it, my group isn’t on the critical path.”
Translation: It’s schedule-chicken time. We’re way late but someone else is bound to be even later.
“It’s code complete.”
Translation: Some code has been written. Features will be added later.
“The code is 95% reusable.”
Translation: Five percent of the source code is utterly and irretrievably lost.
“It’s feature complete.”
Translation: The feature list has been truncated.
“It’s Alpha ready.”
Translation: A lot of code has been written; none tested.
“It’s Beta ready.”
Translation: It’s Alpha ready.”
“The daily bug count is going down.”
Translation: The testers have been reassigned or The testers have had their email server removed.
And a last one:
“Ship it!”
Translation: The Development team is sick of this and wants to move on to something else. The customers will test it.