Dictionary of Project Terms


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Major Technological Breakthrough
-- Back to the drawing board.

Developed after years of intensive research
-- It was discovered by accident.

Project slightly behind original schedule due to unforeseen difficulties
-- We are working on something else.

The designs are well within allowable limits
-- We just made it, stretching a point or two.

Customer satisfaction is believed assured
-- We are so far behind schedule that the customer was happy
   to get anything at all from us.

Close project coordination
-- We should have asked someone else.

The design will be finalized in the next reporting period
-- We haven't started this job yet, but we've got to say something.

A number of different approaches are being tried
-- We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.

Test results were extremely gratifying
-- It works, and are we surprised!

Extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to
the problem
-- We just hired three new guys; we'll let them kick it around
   for a while.

Preliminary operational tests are inconclusive
-- The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.

The entire concept will have to be abandoned
-- The only guy who understood the thing quit.

Modifications are underway to correct certain minor difficulties
-- We threw the whole thing out and are starting from scratch.


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