Fast and Furious

I'm sure I have goofy speech patterns and favourite catch phrases of my own but I also have a talent for picking these colloquialisms out of someone else's speech as well. I have discovered over the years that the best time to capture these beauties within an IT environment is during the inevitable "status meeting". It's almost like a freestyle rap battle where two or more contenders try to outdo each other for status meeting supremacy. Fortunately for me, the agile process inspired daily standup meetings on my new project have become a veritable gold mine for these things. We have a few people on the project who are black-belt kung-fu masters of the colloquialism spinning these out with speed and grace... Here's a sample of the ones I've captured so far:

up to speed	high level design
make it real	snapshot
visionary thing	anecdotal evidence
identify the need	lay the groundwork
cycles available	disparate user experience
bottom feeder	look and feel
production capacity	nebulous
context	numerous permutations
drivers	shock effect
more or less	impact
grease the skids	fresh set of eyes
steer going forward	engage you
take forward	externalize
put the spin on it	socializing it
draft rollout plan	show stopper
iterative process	mitigate risk
right hand man	extra pair of hands
duck is cooked	messaging protocol
key artifacts	validation effect
verbage	sooner rather than later
put lipstick on it	technical components
bring to the table	consider the options
test bed	full meal deal
iterative cycle	lock it down in stone
instant gratification