Definitions - ‘C’
More definitions of project management and associated terms, to help with project and stakeholder communications:
“Card”
(a) Business card, or Namecard.
(b) Major source of deforestation due to the extraordinarily high number of cards acquired in any given day.
(c) Status symbol with a meaningless and inflated job title.
“Casual Friday”
(a) The policy of allowing employees to dress informally every Friday.
(b) A seemingly good idea that always ends up with the management sending out an email to describe exactly what employees are and aren’t allowed to wear.
“cc”
(a) Carbon Copy, or an email option where people can be copied with all the recipients being aware.
(b) Something that micro-managers like you to do, so they can keep a detailed watch on you at all times “Copy me on all your emails to keep me in the loop”.
(b) The classic way of covering yourself, by copying everyone on an email just in case they might ever be involved.
“Challenging”
(a) Hard.
(b) Great way of describing your weaknesses. Would you rather say “I have no idea what I’m doing” or “I’m finding this project quite challenging”?
“Change”
(a) To become different or undergo transformation or alteration.
(b) The introduction of new and annoying policies. A great opportunity for consultants.
“Conference Call”
(a) A phone call involving lots of people.
(b) Long and boring event seemingly designed to test your attention span, during which nothing gets done.
“Constructive Feedback”
(a) Negative feedback that is presented as being useful and for the team-members benefit.
(b) Very subjective, as the term is applied by the person who is delivering the feedback, and not by the unfortunate person who has to receive it.