> > Bob W wrote: > > >This word 'roadmap' is really great - a fine example of management > >guff. > > <snip> > > Great story! I've worked in places like that. > > But in reference to Pentax there really is a difference > between a plan > and a roadmap. The roadmap is a *subset* of what's in the plan: The > subset which they're willing to make public rather than > hiding from the > competition. Once you know the difference it is no longer surprising
> when Pentax releases a product that's not on the roadmap. > it's still a bad analogy. A real road map shows you a multitude of different ways of getting from one place to another, or many other places. Typically a plan (and therefore all subsets of the plan) show you one way to get there. Calling a plan a roadmap is just a management way of trying to sex things up. Somehow a plan is not as good as a roadmap in management-speak. And a subset of a plan is still a plan. -- Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
