WHAT OFFICERS SAY, AND WHAT OFFICERS MEAN
Adapted by Cpl (ret) "Durty" Dan Leger

What action officers say and what they mean:

Essentially Complete
It's half done

Schedule Exposure
It slipped three weeks ago

We predict
We hope to God!

Design is lagging
Not a single thing exists

Risk is high but acceptable
100 to 1 odds, or with 10 times the budget and 10 times the people, we stand a 50/50 chance

Potential show stopper
The team has updated their resumes

Serious but not insurmountable problems
It'll take a miracle

Basic agreement has been reached
The @##$%%'s won't even talk to us

Results are being quantified
We're massaging the numbers so that they will agree with our conclusions

Task force to review
7 people who are incompetent at their regular jobs have been loaned to the project

Not well defined
Nobody's even thought about it

Still analyzing the requirements
See previous answer

Not well understood
Now that we've thought about it, we don't want to think about it anymore

Requires further analysis and management attention
Totally out of control

Results are promising
Turned power on and no smoke detected!

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