Capacity planning
A corporate euphemism for "guessing how much work we can handle" that makes wild speculation sound like sophisticated resource management, usually done by people who have never actually managed resources.
Examples
Examples:
- "We need to do capacity planning." (we need to guess how much we can screw up)
- "Capacity planning will help us." (guessing will somehow make us better)
- "Our capacity planning is accurate." (our guessing is slightly less wrong than usual)
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euphemismguessingspeculationresourcesaccurate
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