# I need a name for my project **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649 "2008-05-26T14:05:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rocksolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@rocksolid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocksolid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/1 "2008-05-26T14:05:42Z")
Yup, marketing budget doesn’t allow for project branding, it’s down to me (and you if you are willing). My programme of works includes three projects as follows: 1. A new customer zone on the web - account self service etc 2. A systems architecture rebuild to facilitate the creation of new flexible discounts/offers etc 3. Launch of a new service. So any ideas what to call the collective programme of works? I’m liking the sound of Voyager as it suggests the brave new world type thing that we are trying to achieve but something more original would be good. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/2 "2008-05-26T18:28:31Z")
\>something more original would be good “Voyager” has been done. How about “Death Spiral”? ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/3 "2008-05-26T19:04:51Z")
I’d lean towards something that has connotations of independence… given that items 1 and 2 generally get branded with things that are related to freedom and liberation and all those good things so that you capture the fact. I’m having trouble landing on an exact word, though. I’ll let one of the more clever wordsmithy Doper types take care of that. (not my fault… my company thinks that inspirational project names should be things like “Business Transformation” or “Integrated Customer Management”) ---
**Author:** ![david8686a\_netscape.net](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/david8686a_netscape.net/32/3352_2.png) [@david8686a\_netscape.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/david8686a_netscape.net)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/4 "2008-05-26T19:29:20Z")
Customer facing Integrated System(s) ---
**Author:** ![rocksolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@rocksolid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocksolid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/5 "2008-05-26T19:37:45Z")
[QUOTE=Napier] \>something more original would be good “Voyager” has been done. How about “Death Spiral”? [/QUOTE] Given the timescales and budget, that’s probably about right! Actually, an ‘in joke’ that the client wont understand would be great. Think NASA sounding project names but made into an acronym for ‘this project is totally screwed from the outset, the end is nigh etc etc’. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/6 "2008-05-26T21:09:16Z")
I coluld have sworn there was a widget on the Dilbert website to randomly generate project names but I can’t seem to find it now. Death Spiral was actually mentioned in a Dilbert strip and what I was going to suggest. My next best suggestion would be to have an acronym with an official translation that the client will like and an unofficial internal meaning that tells the true story. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/7 "2008-05-27T09:42:44Z")
My favourite from _Dilbert_ is a project with the acronym TTP. It stands for **T** he **T** TP **P** roject. 😃 As for your project, how about something related to swords? _Broadsword Cutlass Katana Rapier Running Blade_ etc. You could always go with _Tsar_- “Technical Systems And Resources”. Guess what happened to the last Tsar of Russia? Hint: It involves being shot by the Bolsheviks. Or how about _“Somme”_- “System for Online Multi-Media Experience”? (You know your WWI history, right?) I’m not allowed to name projects at work anymore because I always give them names that sound like something out of a Frederick Forsyth novel; “Operation Torchlight” or “The Siberian Project”, and that sort of thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/8 "2008-05-27T10:03:39Z")
Not original thinking, but many other projects like this are called ‘My[whatever]’ - with the ‘whatever’ part being your company name or the name of the extant service. OK, how about: **Sovreign** - as in ‘authority over’, but also as in ‘shiny gold valuable thing’ or **Dominion** (I used that name for a stock control system I wrote some years back - which is no longer in use now) ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/9 "2008-05-27T11:37:10Z")
[QUOTE=rocksolid] Actually, an ‘in joke’ that the client wont understand would be great. Think NASA sounding project names but made into an acronym for ‘this project is totally screwed from the outset, the end is nigh etc etc’. [/QUOTE] Well, there’s [Deep Impact](http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/28jun_deepimpact.htm) . The mission was a success but the whole point was to slam into a comet. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/10 "2008-05-27T19:55:10Z")
Taiga Albedio Tundra Dark Matter ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/11 "2008-05-27T19:58:14Z")
I have an idea, but it only works if your name is Alan Parsons. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/12 "2008-05-27T20:15:39Z")
[Argus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus). System Heuristics Integration Technology (S.H.I.T.) ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/13 "2008-05-27T21:07:23Z")
Revelation. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/14 "2008-05-27T21:31:09Z")
Your description made me think of a self serve gas station. But I suppose Pump Your Own, wouldn’t have the right ring to it. Actually, from your description, The Customer Zone doesn’t sound bad. You don’t say what the new service will be, but it all seems customer access related. Customer Resource Access Zone? If speaking about project training, it would be CRAZ/Ed. Or if zone doesn’t sound internet enough, there’s the Customer Resource Access Page. Website works, too, but isn’t as rude. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-my-project/450649/15 "2008-05-28T01:06:59Z")
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