the.com/deliverable
A promise with a deadline, repackaged as a noun so nobody can argue with it.
means A specific result or output that one party is contractually or formally obligated to produce and hand over to another.
from From 'deliver' — Latin 'deliberare,' to set free or hand over, from 'de-' (away) plus 'liberare' (to free, related to 'liber,' free). The word traveled from physical freeing and handing-over to the delivery of goods, then, in the 20th century, got bureaucratically flattened into a noun — 'deliverable' — by project managers who needed a tidy word for 'the thing you owe me by Friday.'
- origin
- business jargon turned project-management gospel
- hidden trick
- calling it a deliverable makes vague work sound finished
- red flag
- often means nobody agreed what done means
- synonym
- the thing due yesterday, technically