What's the worst-named project you've worked on?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Oy vey, academia loves it some bad acronyms! And this is coming from someone who worked for the DoD.

We put together a program called “Academic Success” and hired a lovely woman to supervise it. The sign was ordered and put up on her office door; roughly 30 seconds later it was pointed out that it read “Dr. Smith, ASS” (Academic Success Supervisor).

One of our acceleration programs is named after an assisted suicide group. I pointed this out, but it wasn’t changed.

Our PR folks recently rolled out a campaign that uses a line from the Rolling Stones that is about self-pleasure.

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That Wikipedia article, “Battle of the Beams,” is really good — well written, entertaining, and informative.

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Just out of curiosity, why did you put up with this? Were you getting paid extra? Did you get a special plaque at the end? Did you expect a big promotion?

And did you actually get rewarded as you expected?

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Not bad if it was once but, please, if you’re implementing SAP? Don’t call it Sapphire. I’ve worked on enough of those to make me a necklace :stuck_out_tongue:

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There was one project code named Rock. That isn’t a bad name, but the project logo was the well known picture of some dinosaurs observing the comet or asteroid strike that would kill them all.
I didn’t think using a logo of one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth was such a good idea. And indeed, the project went extinct.

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Microsoft has had some doozies, but I think my favorite was Snowball, which was Windows for Workgroups 3.10, which eventually, uh, can’t think of a word for it…let’s say its feature list multiplied at a rapidly accelerating rate, eventually turning into WFW 3.11.

And let’s not forget that the codename for Bob was…Utopia.

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I worked on a project called “Cardigan”. It was named for the town/county/island/?? in Wales as part of a place-name series. The other project teams would put up catalog pictures of sweater-cardigans in our area. We got no respect.

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Many moons ago, I worked on a project that utilized a new technology for a chemical process…I was only one of the downstream minions who was tasked to find potential commercial applications…the first time those of us in my group heard the project name, we really thought it was a joke…no, said our director, it was named by the CEO…turns out whe the CEO and his team were introduced to the technology, he was so taken that he exclaimed, “Boy, this is one Hummer of an idea!” Thus was born, ‘The Hummer Project’…