I have decided I have a new term that just bugs me — “knowledge transfer”.  For whatever reason, people seem to think that information can just be knowledge transfered around from one person to another and that all will be OK.

It is a frequent phenomenon at work.  I had conversations today about sending a person out to a location to gain “knowledge transfer” of the system that is being developed.  Only for that person to then come back and “knowledge transfer” to people here.  It makes it sound like some kind of Borg download or Vulcan mind-meld is going to happen and then all will be fine.

Hate to say it… but it is never fine.  Didn’t you ever play that party game where something is whispered around a circle and by the time it gets back the saying has completely changed?  Same concept… so naturally same result.

Ack!  Rant complete.

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