Friday, September 12, 2008

Examine, if you will, the following gem of righteous Dimspeak from Borodino Bonaparte of MegaCorp application development division:

Based on your input implementing fine grained ACLs in MegaCorp-hosted SVN would need additional engineering to enable the functionality for all users. I see the value in it for your use case, will you be able to provide us any information on what is the $ benefit that you are projecting to your business for moving the repository into MegaCorp hosted/managed SVN? We may be able to justify a one off that suits your requirements if there is considerable cost benefit to the business.
For the uninitiated, I have translated this into English:
I am very lazy and don't know how to do my job. You are cleverer than me, and I know it. Luckily I can hide behind cost savings and avoid doing any work. Hopefully you see the silliness of my questions and will kindly fuck off.
By this means, shareholder value is maintained. Unnecessary expenditure due to increased developer productivity and use of economies of scale are avoided. Strategic thinking worthy of his namesake.

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