Abbreviations

[petermoffatt]

Now I thought Nortel was bad for TLAs, acronyms, and initialisms, but as for Avaya...

Is there a central repository for definitions of abbreviations? If not, where would be the best place to start one?

[jharling]

Great idea - there are several acronym lists in InSite. But they are mostly specific to a product group.

Let me see what we can do. Maybe we create a bevy of them, such as:
- Avaya Acronyms A-C
- Avaya Acronyms D-F
- etc.

And let them grow organically with everyone's participation.

I'll contact you in email and let you know what I come up with.

[petermoffatt]

I think we need to capture all kinds of abbreviations, not just acronyms. However, I don't think we should go as far as to attempt a general glossary, which would be impossibly large.

[petermoffatt]

Maybe a new forum with a set of sticky threads?

[petermoffatt]

Yesterday we encountered an abbreviation that neither ex-Nortel nor Avayan managers could identify!

I can count 14 undefined abbreviations on the main forum page today. A lot of these are well known, but that's not to say everyone knows them.

[petermoffatt]

How do we get a forum created?

[petermoffatt]

There is a Glossary on the Tech Ops Wiki, but this is:
a) specialized
b) internal access only.

[petermoffatt]

I've been sent a link to the following generic resource on Enterprise Portal, which also allows new additions.

http://135.64.140.60:8003/employee%2...er/default.asp

Shame it's not more widely available!

[jrodriguezco]

Hello
aint we Avaya workers?
so we can have the share tool to build up this techtionary.
engineers are masters of acronyms

note: microblog and other applications will not work with FireFox

https://mysite.share.avaya.com/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx

[sfitzg]

The worst thing about the acronyms is that Avaya will not allow you to search on three letters. For example CCE SAP CRM ACM VP cannot be searched on.