Words have meaning, or do they?
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Words have meaning, or do they?
Muse #309 - individualistic mumbo jumbo
And this leads to a lack of alignment on what these are. But, yet in order to achieve common understanding, it is required for the most part for the words to mean similar things, if not the same. And each interpretation is unique with no common understanding. Words like Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, DevOps are thrown around where no two people interpret it the same way. Colloquially. Need I say more. Yet, people still believe that there is a common understanding and these things mean the same to all around them. People make meaning out of them. And then, they continue to live and perpetuate that fallacy of thinking with no validation of it. Interestingly in the organization change that I do work in, the words are interpreted by people in their own way. Words have no meaning by themselves.
Here is the unscrambled version of the scrambled mumbo jumbo above:
Words have no meaning by themselves. People make meaning out of them. But, yet in order to achieve common understanding, it is required for the most part for the words to mean similar things, if not the same.
Interestingly in the organization change industry that I do work in, the words are interpreted by people in organizations in their own way. Colloquially. And each individual interpretation is unique with no common understanding.
Words like Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, DevOps are thrown around where no two people interpret it the same way. And this leads to a lack of alignment on what these are. Leading to misunderstanding.
Yet, people still believe that there is a common understanding and these things mean the same to all around them. And then, they continue to live and perpetuate that fallacy of thinking with no validation of it.
Need I say more?
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PS: If the above-scrambled sentences were too easy for you, try the one created by the Scramblinator!
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