December 21st, 2007

Management-speak: Norming around mechanisms

This is the entire text of an actual piece of email I received from a high-level manager in response to some feedback I sent.

Thanks.

There is a lot of norming around any of these mechanisms as well as a certain amount of ability to hold ones ground in these interactions in addition to the admin of the rule being good enough as discussed.

Bob (not the manager’s actual name)

I’ve heard rumors that this message was written in English, but I’m not convinced.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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