ManagementSpeak: We’ve had to make a very difficult business decision.
Translation: You’re leaving. We’re getting a big bonus.
The decision to use this contribution, from a source who prefers to remain anonymous, was not difficult at all.

ManagementSpeak: The project has been re-scoped and de-scoped. This is a good thing from the point of view of eliminating Scope Creep, which had gotten way out of hand.
Translation #1: We didn’t know what we were doing, but now we’re going to try some other random things to see if any of them work out better.
Translation #2: Now that we said yes too many times, we’ll say no too many times.
This week’s anonymous IS Survivalist points out just a few of the myriad complexities of project management.