Top Rejected Names for My Team
Getting the right team name is critical to setting the right tone for the kind of team you want to have and for recruiting. A cool name gets you the cool people. A boring name gets you people like me. So, in an effort to come up with a team name I sat down and began arranging relevant words for my team and quickly found a host of names that were utterly inappropriate:
- The Non-Professional Developer Team. As if we show up to work late wearing our bathrobes and slippers?
- Enthusiast Developer Team. Rah, rah, rah, aren’t we enthusiastic. Rah.
- Software Hobbyist Incubation Team. Spell it out.
- Student, Hobbyist, and End-user Developer Team. Yeah, we SHED even though our owners brush us every day.
- Beginning Tools for Hobbyist Developers Team. Sure, I really want to be the team whose initials can be sounded out as “butthead.”
- Hobbyist and Beginner Tools Team. Closer, but HaBTT? Habit?
So what do I call this thing?
Comments
- Anonymous
May 05, 2006
That last one could also be the "Hobbit Team" if you're a bit creative about which letters you include and don't mind that your "b" brought along a friend uninvited.
That sounds like it has interesting potential - you could all come to work barefoot as a morale-building exercise... - Anonymous
May 05, 2006
Casual Developer Team ;-) CodeMakers :-) Pretty hard to find a good name I imagine. - Anonymous
May 05, 2006
Beginner, Interested, and General Programmers Interested in More Power (Internal Name) - Anonymous
May 05, 2006
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May 05, 2006
If I could work on Project Gandalf, I'd think more about the Hobbit thing. What could Gandalf stand for? - Anonymous
May 05, 2006
Beginner, Interested, and General Programmers Interested in More Power (Internal Name) - Anonymous
May 05, 2006
Larry, I'm noticing a theme. - Anonymous
May 06, 2006
Why try to give something a great name when the MS marketing team can provide all the soul-crushing-cool-killing sylables you need? - Anonymous
May 06, 2006
How about the After Sunset Team? - Anonymous
May 11, 2006
How about TechAtomic? - Anonymous
May 14, 2006
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