{"id":16473,"date":"2009-10-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/10\/06\/proto-microspeak-efforting\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T10:00:00","slug":"proto-microspeak-efforting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091006-00\/?p=16473","title":{"rendered":"Proto-Microspeak: Efforting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have only two citations, so it may not be proper Microspeak.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> We&#8217;re efforting that for you. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> They&#8217;re not just trying, they&#8217;re <i>efforting<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> Solution efforting seems to fall in a gap between teams so there&#8217;s no clear owner or resourcing focused on it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Bonus jargon: <i>resourcing<\/i>. Actually, that one sentence came from a longer document packed with management-speak. Here&#8217;s another beauty from that longer document: &#8220;A lot of effort goes into availing efficient systems to streamline incident handle time.&#8221; Of course, what the person really meant to write was &#8220;A lot of <u>efforting<\/u>&#8230;&#8221;\n It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5571735\"> the term has been heard around the NPR offices as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> My local social circle has started using the term mockingly. &#8220;The Foo object efforts the destruction of the Bar object.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have only two citations, so it may not be proper Microspeak. We&#8217;re efforting that for you. They&#8217;re not just trying, they&#8217;re efforting. Solution efforting seems to fall in a gap between teams so there&#8217;s no clear owner or resourcing focused on it. Bonus jargon: resourcing. Actually, that one sentence came from a longer document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,103],"class_list":["post-16473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I have only two citations, so it may not be proper Microspeak. We&#8217;re efforting that for you. They&#8217;re not just trying, they&#8217;re efforting. Solution efforting seems to fall in a gap between teams so there&#8217;s no clear owner or resourcing focused on it. Bonus jargon: resourcing. Actually, that one sentence came from a longer document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}