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A long event (sometimes called a "HotHouse" or "brain storming session") whereby Terries gather together and devise very non-clever, and backwards methods for network design based on arcane, 70's circuit-switched methodology such as pushing new and clever mobility technologies over PSTN landlines.
ter·ry tel·co (tĕr'ē tĕl'kō')
n., pl. -cos.
A person who through ignorance, denial or laziness continues to do things the way they have historically been done without recognising that the world around them has changed.
n., pl. -cos.
A person who through ignorance, denial or laziness continues to do things the way they have historically been done without recognising that the world around them has changed.
Terry-O-Meter
The Terry-O-Meter shows my current Terry frustration level.
* Any similarity to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is entirely intentional.
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1 comment:
Ted, you are missing the point.
It ends up looking like PSTN because its a sham.
In a real hothouse you lock up the customer and the best of your R&D and engineering for 3 days on junk food and booze until their minds cloud up to the point where they are brave enough to say "It is not going to work" or they come up with an ingenious idea on how to solve the customer's problem.
In a terry hothouse you lock up the customer with one salesdroid team with a ready-baked brief and a few more teams of cannon fodder to provide backdrop for the triumphant winner salesmen.
That is why the results of a terry hothouse always look like a PSTN - because they are pre-baked to go into the hothouse, they are not a product of the hothouse. It is a sham. Like most terry stuff.
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