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'engage in the painshare' which is an activity where all sides are expected to take a degree of risk and pain to achieve some (any) sort of endstate.

'we're in a tent with poles of varying sizes' which is a phrase used to refute the suggestion that there is only one major issue of interest.

CONFLUENCES!!!

Those who use EMPIRICAL without a clue as to its meaning

...and for the benefit of those who don't:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=EMPIRICAL

MSR

Here's one for you

The armour protection is tuneable by the replacement of armour packs within the vehicle's external skin.

How the Fu*k do you "tune" armour plating?

http://www.army-technology.com/proje...e/future5.html

Thrusting staff officers should feel free to use any phrase that takes their fancy. Extra credit will be given for using that phrase in context, but marks will be subtracted if anyone actually understands.

Thank you for attending this initial discussion on the first cut of the Future Manoeuvre Nutrition Composition Paper. To avoid the chicken and egg scenario we should talk turkey here and perhaps get early visibility of the proposed generic framework so that we can get our ducks in a row. There is clearly room for a meeting of minds for a corporate approach to the overarching requirement of the main gate business case, as outlined on the pie chart, to give us the equities in this issue. We are all over the map on this one, so I am minded to give you a tasker. I want you to think out of the box and articulate a blue-skies vision which we can take forward as a think-piece in order to vector in on societal global paradigms. I know you are not sighted on this issue but we really need to leverage some coherence across the piece and engage with our pan-customer community to enable them to deliver some tangible and holistic outputs for this nutrition challenge against bestclass peers.

No names, no pack drill, but if the chips are down we can fight this one up the chain of command with a view to achieving interoperability and a commonality of standards. The big cheese may be a sandwich short of a picnic, but I don’t want a bun fight if the badgers come into the cake shop, so let’s pick the low hanging fruit and be prepared to move up country with this one – tamasha or no tamasha. We all know which way the cookie crumbles. However, before jumping into bed with the idea, we must push the envelope out as far as possible with a view to joining the party before they come over the hill in some numbers. I refer to that self-licking lollipop, “Disaggregation – a Case to Answer�; it’s fast becoming a dog’s breakfast. At this range I see a potential own goal on our hands and before we’re completely blown out of the water we should be prepared to go around the buoy again. A wholly synergistic approach is needed; after all, a results driven mindset might have us on a slippery slope if we go off-piste. We should probably take this to a ‘win-win’ situation and get the ticks in the boxes. At the end of the day, no one should be out of the loop and we should fast track a value-added bottom line. Our core business must remain with the movers and shakers and, if we hit the right buttons, we can flick their switch.

It is clear that we’re not dealing with a level playing field and the main effort must be to cross the start line with the pot of gold firmly in our grasp before someone moves the goal-posts. The knock on effect of touching base with lessons learnt from the big picture is to go the extra mile and play hardball.

There may be too much smoke and mirrors, so I suggest we park the first idea, go firm where we are on the second and surge with the third using some pretty fast footwork if we are to meet the aggressive timelines otherwise there will be nothing on the clock but the maker’s name. And no standing on the touchline just because it’s a sticky wicket. Thinking on the hoof, I am in the picture with the more bangs for the buck argument, but we must inform the debate in the grand scheme of things.

Run the idea up the flagpole and let’s see who salutes it – my ears tell me that we’re all reading from the same sheet of music here. Fast-forwarding slightly, I have lodged a fiver with the grown-ups, which means we’ll need a cradle to grave solution on the back burner otherwise we’ll run out of steam and end up throwing the baby out with the bath water and have to rely on the stove-piped legacy. As to the first idea, you will need to dine Ã* la carte to capture the underpinning metrics, and also consider the force drivers so that this workstream informs our baseline position and facilitates some boiler-plated headline goals for the future. Naturally, by teasing out the air gaps you will produce the delta and square the circle.

I hear what you say but this is not a zero sum game and the actualité will need to be harmonized in order to ensure buy-in and the overall bespoke architecture. There is a basket of workstrands which will inform your chapeau-piece in the round and you must ramp these up, or down, as necessary – and don’t forget to prioritise the parameters. Fly kites if you must but we really need to test all sub-concepts to destruction, holding our stakeholders’ feet to the fire, while remaining alert to the mood music. As this must be a joined-up wake-up call, the taxonomy of our change management needs to be taken forward in a timely manner. We will therefore need to cut to the chase with this project to keep empowered.

I judge that an enhanced strawman might be handy, which could chime with the hooks exposed during our recent workshop. By all means optimize the overall granularity of the piece by drilling down and mapping across to other position papers, but cross-walk or flag-up any emerging arenas so that you continue to engage with our development agenda. I believe it is time to take ownership and display intellectual rigour by clearly articulating a road map which will, of course, require milestones and signposts to give a coherent direction of travel. I aim to close the loop with a sensitivity analysis. The first cut must reflect a seamless step-change by incentivising sub-optimal solutions for those going off-line. To avoid mission creep, an enduring and robust construct is required.

You may therefore need to weave in and populate a new value set. Close with the deliverables before the bar gets raised - but no quick ‘n’ dirty solutioneering or excursions: this would be counter- intuitive, when what is needed are enablers with the embedded fidelity to fill any lacuna.

Let me know when you are good to go with a tightly-nested capping paper, we need to get our dog into the fight asap. If you need to engage with me I’ll be getting traction on my maritime platform for the next 24/7 and no throwing the toys out of the cot just because it’s Friday afternoon or you’ll be swimming with the sharks.

This was heard at an international meeting:


In the introduction:

"I'll remind you of a 6 letter word which I'll come back to at the end of this presentation.........




20 minutes later...




...and that 6 letter word is TRUST......?!&*!

(the presentation was given by a US Army 1*....!

Originally Posted by sknn

OK what does "granularity" mean, and what is it used to mean?

This word really winds me up. All people mean when they use it is 'detail' as in: 'We need a greater level of granularity' or 'We need more detail'. Whenever I am in a meeting, I will ask anyone who uses the word what it means. Almost invariably, they feel like they're a pretentious twit and stop using it.

If I had my way, everyone who uses 'granularity' would get punched - I'm 6'6" so can probably get away with this tactic.

ARRSE should set their rules to include it as an extremely offensive swear word.

Absolutely with you. I always understood that if something was more granular / grainy, it was less well defined. On the other hand when greater detail or greater resolution is presented, greater definition is provided. W ank-words to compensate for poor command of our fair language. Wonder how many times we'll hear it in the upper 6th next year.

Some of my favourites: threat source elements (for enemy), visual corrective devices (for spectacles) and rotary wing assets (for helicopters).
But the prize goes to 'whole of government solutions' which, in the planning group at which I was dozing, was acronimised to WOG solutions, with absolutely straight faces all round. Oh yes, and the killing ground has become the 'engagement area'.

“Disaggregation – a Case to Answer�

And the people to answer the case are MND(SE) J9!

MSR