No what happened was the committee came up with a name that was Gruntmaster 6000 tier bad, then the exec in charge of the product rightly concluded the name was garbage and named it something different (ie. good). So the entire exercise was wasted.
The funny thing was it really bothered one of the other engineers on the committee that the name wasn't used. He acknowledged the name was garbage but didn't like that they decided on a whim to not follow this process they claimed to want to follow.
I used to get into friendly arguments with him about it, because I wanted the product to have a good name and didn't particularly care how it got one.
Was your product the Gruntmaster 6000?
No what happened was the committee came up with a name that was Gruntmaster 6000 tier bad, then the exec in charge of the product rightly concluded the name was garbage and named it something different (ie. good). So the entire exercise was wasted.
My favorite 'joke' about committees and group meetings is a camel is a horse designed by committee.
The funny thing was it really bothered one of the other engineers on the committee that the name wasn't used. He acknowledged the name was garbage but didn't like that they decided on a whim to not follow this process they claimed to want to follow.
I used to get into friendly arguments with him about it, because I wanted the product to have a good name and didn't particularly care how it got one.