Today's new term for the Office Lexicon is 'Shotgun start':
Starting requirements analysis, system design, software development, and testing of a project all at the same time. (from golf - an event that starts with participants starting on different holes at the same time, with the start signalled by an official firing a shotgun)
A real time-saver if you have a well-understood task; a recipe for disaster in most other circumstances.
Posted by Chris at September 16, 2005 01:48 PM