You know what grinds my gears? Buzzwords.

I’m on a lot of conference calls at work and I have the pleasure of dealing with vendors all across the IT landscape, daily. Buzzwords have always had a place in the IT world, but some of the common catchphrases that have become popular over the past few years annoy me more than fingers across a chalkboard.

Here’s a few that make me gag:

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Deep dive
Reach out
10,000 foot view (50,000 foot view is pretty common, too)
Circle back
Kickoff call
Jump on a call
Best practice
Appending 'manager' or 'coordinator' to a title just for grins
Touch base
Almost anything with 'cloud' or 'cloud-based'
Get a black eye

Most of these obviously have a root outside of the IT world, but somewhere along the line a project manager out there decided to overuse all of these just to make my skin crawl. Thanks, bud.

Links to Octopress blogs have really caught my eye recently, so I’ve decided to give this framework a shot instead of doing the usual and rolling my own.

Stay tuned for more.