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I've sat in meetings where we're brainstorming ideas for a product and there are veteran decision science and analyst types who are speaking in the jargon of their industry and us developers are having to somehow decifer what they're saying in order to build something meaningful.

Oh so you want us to understand all the concepts and jargon it took you a Masters in business and mathematics along with years of experience to understand. And when the meeting ends you think we're going to go out and build your app how you envisaged it when you didn't clearly explain anything. You just shot out a bunch of jargon and encoded industry-speak.

Its stupidity.

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  • 1
    Moving forward you should touch base with them to figure out the low hanging fruit. You might even get to a point of synergy, if you have the bandwidth. In conclusion, you should set up a meeting next week go over setting up future meetings.
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    Great rant. Jargon and miscommunication is a big problem in projects and other aspects of life. I have encountered emergency situations impacted because different groups were speaking with their own jargon and response was impacted.
    Everyone should be speaking in understandable terms.
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    @Jumpshot44 indeed, as developer I go out of my way to talk in terms that my audience will understand and not because they're unintelligent but because they haven't spent hours upon hours learning the subject as I have.
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