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This isn't a buzzword. It's more of an anti-buzzword. And it already has a much better definition from the Jargon File (aka Hacker's Dictionary)
Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. “The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable.”
This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.
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Wow you sure have a lot of knowledge on this subject. Any idea about the origin of:
Pure Freak'in Magic or PFM for short.
My wave optics professor loved to use this when he would describe 1/4 wave magic, again magic. It's just that he didn't want to delve into quantum mechanics to show us what what really happening....
And yes, light can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, but only when it is incident upon a 'pilicial' a 1/4 wave obstruction of the incident wavelength. Now we just need to make them in fiber and wrap them around the world and talk to the future. 
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Not really a "buzzword", but I'm always amused by how the crime shows (in this case, CSI Miami) butcher technical terms 
The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen
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I use the word "lobotomized" a lot, e.g. "WinCE is a lobotomized implementation of Win32" or "the Celeron is a lobotomized version of the Pentium 3." I often wonder, especially as the years pass, how many people actually have any idea what this means. And oftentimes I wonder what kind of antisocial behavior WinCE, the Celeron, etc. engaged in to deserve a lobotomy!
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Just came up with that today, after looking at an online reservation system and my head started spinning around like on the Exorcist.
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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what you're telling me....
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If you have a daily meeting and you have simply just changed the appointment to say "DAILY SCRUM" you are not doing agile development.
How did this word end up in the hands (or mouths) of every person from senior management to janitors?
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I think it originated with management who also were/are soccer fans. Someone made a metaphor and people hearing it did not know it was a metaphor and thought it was a new I.T. or developement term. So it starts out with ignorance and then people naturally want to cover up the ignorance. And then we are all expected to know the term and use it as though it is some type of new concept. yikes, it will never end.
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FForrett wrote: I think it originated with management who also were/are soccer fans
Rugby Actually.[^]
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I have a 1hr scrum every day...
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Unpaid overtime is slavery.
Trollslayer wrote: Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
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A 1 hr scrum? Wow  .
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Abhinav S wrote: A 1 hr scrum
Every frickin' day.
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Unpaid overtime is slavery.
Trollslayer wrote: Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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I have tried to call it a "meeting" but the powers that be gave me electroshock till I gave in.
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Unpaid overtime is slavery.
Trollslayer wrote: Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
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When you have Scott Guthrie and an elite business school vectoring toward the same point, it doesn't take much out-of-the-box thinking to see what will happen when they collide. It's a perfect storm for jargoneering (that's a buzzword of my own, which is short for "jargon engineering.")
The result of this horrible experiment-gone-wrong can be found at http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1920 .
And at the end of the day, jargoneering is not rocket science. Just forget about parts of speech or providing a useful service, and master the misleading metaphor.
Here are a few of the key takeaways from Scott's little talk (webinar?):
"The second way we will monetize is by having a connection with customers who are building these types of experiences."
"The mobile space is interesting. There's the technical of how you get the software built for it." (Even the interviewer couldn't stomach Scott's innovative use of "technical" as a noun, and the transcript actually inserts "[issue]." )
"Obviously, we have a lot of apps that we build, not just in the developer's space, but in the knowledge productivity space and the enterprise space." ("Obvious" and "meaningless" are apparently synonmous now).
I was over in the "knowledge productivity space" the other day and it smelled like someone spilled coffee or something under the refrigerator.
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Describing a recent hire at a client location. "...he will be a boots on the ground for us..."
The latest nation. Procrastination.
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Gotta love how companies will try to drill into your head that the stuff you are working on is of the utmost importance. You are not simply making crappy software for the least possible expense, you are fighting a war... to protect freedom... for the safety of your family. And you are naturally the most important soldier there; the "boots on the ground". I guess this new hire is going to get all the dirty work done. It's going to change the whole company; going to make things better. 
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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I couldn't hear that without thinking about Dora the Explorer. "He will be a Boots" LOL ... i.e. an animated character incapable of speech outside a few words of broken Spanish?
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"High Touch Issue"
As opposed to what?!?! a "Low Touch Issue" ... how bout the "Stop Touching Me Issue" ... Unless you want me to touch you ... No. wait. That's something else entirely.
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I've got a Red Touch Issue for them to work with.
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I am watching the local news, and just heard the phrase e-tail, to mean online retail.
I would have been impressed, however, if it had referred to a way to meet ladies of I'll repute online.
CCC solved so far: 2 (including a Hard One!)
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You broke the algorithm. You meant, "ladies of ill e-pute".
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"We recently held a transformation bazaar to look at different system changes which could be implemented across the system but while making sure we maintain quality, adopt innovation and really grasp the prevention agenda."
(NHS is National Health Service for those not in the UK)
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JamesA_Dev wrote: We recently held a transformation bazaar to look at different system changes which could be implemented across the system but while making sure we maintain quality, adopt innovation and really grasp the prevention agenda.
Just as long as they are not wasting time and resources on all these idle malingerers lying about in the hospitals.
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