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Information Technology Definitions
for Common Terms - What They Really Mean
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Agile development: Used to
describe anything that’s not traditional.
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Alignment: After 30 years,
people still aren’t sure what it means.
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Client/customer: Are
business people IT’s clients or its customers? Depends on whom you
ask.
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Domain: There are business
domains, architectural domains, application domains. Without a
modifier, you’re lost.
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Functional expertise: In
contracts, it usually means a certain level of experience. But
expertise? Who are we kidding?
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Maturity assessment: A
complicated name for benchmarking.
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Onboarding: A fancy word
for training. We think.
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Proactive: Tackling
something that didn’t tackle you first.
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Process: Procedures,
suggestions, best practices, what you’d better do — you figure it
out.
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Proprietary: Technically, a
company’s intellectual property, but this term is used to describe
any off-the-shelf software that was glued together just for that
organization.
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Rightsizing: Getting rid of
people.
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Seamless/integrated/transparent
systems/solutions: Your guess is as good as ours.
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Service-oriented architecture (SOA):
Does that mean everything else we’re doing isn’t service-oriented?
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Socialize: Check with other
people and groups to see what they think, as in “Let’s socialize
that idea.” Outside IT, it means to get together with friends.
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Solution: Whatever it is,
it begs the question, “What’s my problem?”
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Sourcing: It describes who
is taking your job.
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Strategic: Systems that
keep the company in business or systems I work with.
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Sysadmin and sysprog:
Shorthand for “systems administrator” and “systems programmer.”
Examples of just how lazy developers can be.
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Team player: The embodiment
of a loaded term. It generally has to do with getting on board — but
not with onboarding.
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Turnkey: Plug it in, and it
will run; alternatively, whatever we’re going to build for you.
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Value-added: Meaningless.
Everything today is said to add value to something somewhere.
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Virtualization: Not
physically there, but, well, it is physically there. So are we doing
it with mirrors?
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