Spend enough time at any organization, and you’ll start to fall into the trap of speaking in jargon. Whether it’s acronyms or initialisms, we love to throw around terms that define a whole host of sub-ideas. A sentence composed of industry terms can be incredibly dense and spoken quickly. 

That’s not always bad. But it is limiting. 

The jargon we use can start to have cross-pollination across team members. But it’s slow, confusing, and makes it very hard for someone new to get up to speed. 

The last thing a new person wants is to be part of a team for months and quietly admit they don’t know all the terms slung around. That can also be on that person to ask, but not everyone will.

It’s a problem none of us are immune to, but when possible, take a moment and say the thing you mean, then you can add the three-letter term at the end.