Lingo Bingo

So there I was sipping my coffee this morning, checking my RSS feeds and WHAM! Inspiration!

I should say for the record that I love our project managers, and I love our account managers, and that they have been nothing but good to me and the rest of the creative team, cleaning up the digital messes we sometimes leave, assuaging our fragile (yet inflated) egos … they’re great. But they use a lot of funny words, and ridicule is the sincerest form of flattery. Right?

Michael Sippey, VP of Six Apart (software company behind Moveable Type) compiled a great list of the specialized lingo project managers use in their daily lives, which I found via Kottke. Reading through it, I was mentally checking off the ones I’ve heard personally, both at Pop Art, and in my previous lives. I fired up Illustrator, and 10 minutes later, I had invented a new game: Lingo Bingo, Project Management Edition. Future editions (Creative, SEO, Developer) forthcoming. Leave other ideas in the comments.

Project Management Lingo Bingo

Here’s a handy-dandy, printable PDF version.

Update: Be sure to check out Lingo Bingo 2: Creative Edition.

Posted on December 16, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized, , .

Dave Selden

By Dave Selden, Creative Director

7 Comments on Lingo Bingo

  1. Well, you creatives use a lot of strange words too – like Adobe and comps…we have to fight back by inventing our own language.
    I have to say though, I like what you did with a bunch of words! We PMs would never think of anything as cool as that – we’d stick with bullet points. ;)

    Posted on Dec 16, 2008.

    By rodica

  2. Not to be the kill joy, but buzzword bingo has been around for quite a while… Handy generator at http://isd.usc.edu/~karl/Bingo/.

    Posted on Dec 16, 2008.

    By Steve S.

  3. I made some IA/UXP bingo cards for my husband for a job interview with a hott agency last year. (I used to work in the field too.) He got the job. For our prize, the agency moved us to a place we both hate. Moral: bingo kills.

    Posted on Dec 16, 2008.

    By Michelle

  4. [this is good]

    Posted on Dec 16, 2008.

    By Michael Sippey

  5. As one of the Project Managers you so eloquently claim to love, I’m going to have to push back on that. I would like to see for your next post an analysis (bingo game) of TLA’s (three letter acronyms).

    Posted on Dec 16, 2008.

    By Joe Walters

  6. hi well this is fuuny lol i vave 2 do project manijment and apart of my corce and find all the buzz words anoing so yay

    Posted on Dec 18, 2008.

    By Kevin morton

  7. I have to say the phrase “open kimono” is the creepiest of all. Mostly middle-aged white guys like to say that and I’ve only heard it among super management types hanging with other management types. It’s just wrong.

    Posted on Dec 23, 2008.

    By amanda