http://eppsnet.com Online journal based in Orange County, CA. Hilarious anecdotes tempered by the icy chill of certain death. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:05:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en http://eppsnet.com/2007/01/eppsnets-it-responses http://eppsnet.com/2007/01/eppsnets-it-responses#comments Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:20:02 +0000 PE http://eppsnet.com/2007/01/eppsnets-it-responses Inspired by Don Carman’s Reporter Responses, a handy list for the IT professional:

• Good, fast, cheap — pick two.
• It’s not a show-stopper.
• It’s a show-stopper.
• It’s out of scope.
• It’s not rocket science.
• It’s not brain surgery.
• Let’s not reinvent the wheel.
• That sounds doable.
• I could do it myself in a week.
• That’s why I make the big money.
• It works fine on my machine.
• It was working fine 10 minutes ago.
• It’s a best-of-breed solution.
• It’s an enterprise-class solution.
• It’s a state-of-the-art solution.
• It’s an industry standard.
• It’s not one of our core competencies.
• We’re waiting on requirements.
• We’re waiting on design.
• We’re waiting on the vendor.
• We found some issues in testing.
• We’re thinking outside the box.
• Add that to the lessons learned.
• That’s a ballpark estimate.
• I’m working smarter, not harder.
• There are no problems, only opportunities.
• Since when did you become an expert on ____?
• I can’t explain that to my boss.
• I’ll get to it next week.
• We’ll make up the lost time in testing.
• It has to go through change control.
• We moved that to the next release.
• I’ll clean that up later.
• It’s pretty much done.
• It’s 90 percent done.
• It’s done, except for the testing.
• It’s just a one-line fix.
• We have to rewrite it from scratch.
• That’s a training issue.
• That’s not really an issue.
• Have you tried calling the help desk?
• We’re in discovery on that.
• We would have been all right, but the requirements kept changing.
• We have to follow the standard process.
• Let’s do a gap analysis.
• It’s a team effort.

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