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via my Wonderful and Totally Amazing Mentor, Judy Cote
| WHAT IT SAYS | WHAT IT MEANS |
| Essentially Complete | Half done |
| Schedule Exposure | Slipped three weeks ago |
| We Predict | We hope to God |
| Screen Design is lagging | Not a single screen exists |
| Risk is high but acceptable | 100 to 1 odds, or with 10 times the budget and headcount we stand a 50/50 chance |
| Potential Show stopper | All team members have updated their resumes |
| Serious but not insurmountable problems | It’ll take a miracle |
| Basic agreement, however | The beepers won’t talk to us |
| Results are being quantified | We’re massaging the numbers so that they’ll 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 thought about it |
| Not well understood | Now that we think about it, we don’t want to think about it anymore |
| Requires further analysis | Totally out of control and management attention |
| A number of fixes have been identified | The whole team is shooting up |
| Results are encouraging | Power-on produced no smoke |
| Less than expected | Abend again |
| A high risk project | No way we can make it |
| Impact being determined | Where the heck are we? |
| Aggressive milestone | Manager’s dreaming again |
| No contingency | Cancel vacations, kiss the family goodbye, bring a change of underwear to work with you |
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