Fun Dept.: The buzzword bingo

The Buzzword bingo, aka Bulshit bingo (Buzzword Bingo is more polite - see wikipedia):

Search Results for buzzword | Dilbert by Scott Adams

Namely:

• http://assets.amuniversal.com/90405b209f0b012f2fe600163e41dd5b
• http://dilbert.com/strip/2010-10-25

BINGO!

The FUN Dept.: About passwords, password policies and related stuff

The "good old times" (not) where 123 or Benfica would be good enough for a password everywhere you needed a password are indeed over for good. Here are some Dilbert strips password-related (the strips are not properly "new", just look at the dates):

• This reminds me of the temporary password Rui C has provided me with yesterday: Dilbert Comic Strip on 2012-07-01 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
• This is about new password policies, increasingly demanding (not like that one): http://dilbert.com/strip/2004-12-05
• And this is what all passwords are: several asterisks? http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-09-06

FUN Dept.: SQL Databases?

When the leading edge technology required us to have a SQL DB on our systems, this happened frequently:

(Dilbert's Friday November 17, 1995 comic strip)

FUN Dept.: About Early Deliveries (and the relation to Incompetence) | Dilbert

Have you been on a project that delivered in advance? Did you ever finish a task earlier than planned? Good! Don't ever think on following this advice:

FUN Dept.: Predictable persons | Dilbert

Fun Dept.: How's Work? | Dilbert

If you are doing software engineering with a "bad" team and/or leadership or without a proper [software develoment] process here's how you could be feeling:

The Fun Dept.: The new password policy | Dilbert

PS. Copyright stated in the target image.

What does Victoria's Secret has to do with Software Engineering?

Ah well, in fact nothing at all (*).

And no, this link did not lead you to the "soft porn" site https://www.victoriassecret.com/ (I'm kidding, it's a bra well known and reputed e-commerce site). But the next one will (I was just double-checking).

(*) We could be discussing the design of the site, the overall architecture and its quality attributes (of the site, I mean), for instance, performance, scalability, maintainability, supportability, etc, but... No really.

(2016-07-28: Updated to include this very well designed site: https://womensecret.com/pt/en/homepage; no links, we don't want to be indexed for the wrong reasons)

The Fun Dept.: The Dilbert Comic Strip

I thought everyone knew (and loved) Dilbert. When I am down and out, this is the comic strip that still can make me laugh. I share this out with you all because I found out I was wrong (i.e. some of you still don't know it).
The author (Scott Adams) worked lots of years in the "Corporate America" and so he knows very well how things go there. Also, he knows very well the product development / software development industry.

The comic strip is for free (and you can also buy the books on your favorite bookstore). You can sign for the daily dilbert here. And you can also follow the Blog.

Either way, the highlights could be something like:

• Extreme Programming: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=extreme+programming
• Project Management: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=project+management
• Risk Management: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=risk+management 
• On Programmers: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=programmer
• On testers and testing: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=tester, http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=testing
• On "overheads" like... Accountants and more: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Finance%20Troll
• On dinosaurs, like... Well paid COBOL programmers: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Bob%20the%20Dinosaur
• On Marketing people: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=marketing
• And so on... You can also (and probably should) read the strips in chronological order (2016). The archive starts in... 1989.

(2016-05-04: Added more categories)

The Fun Dept.: BULLSHIT BINGO

Do you know bullshit bingo?

Learn about it here:

• http://bullshitbingo.net/
• http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword_bingo