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Why I'm keen on naming my solutions with fancy names

People often ask why I'm keen on naming my solutions with fancy names.

The question I return to them is "why do you have a name ?"

Naming is a mind-manipulating technique that helps you to focus on the moment by hiding irrelevant personal complexities of that person. The name often acts as a key to recalling memories and gives you comfortability in communication.

In other words, the name of a person simplifies the engagement by providing him/her with a unique identification. 

Similarly, when your solution has an attractive name, explaining your solution is less complex. Calling it by its' name will help people to focus on that particular section of the solution by hiding irrelevant complexities and components.

Imagine you are building a solution to integrate all key ITSM-related systems into a process pipeline. Typically you can name that project "ITSM Application Integration". The complexity of the project is always attached to the name hence you always bring that complexity to the table irrespective of the focus and size of your discussion. 

But in my case, I probably go with a name like "One Line", which hides all the unnecessary complexities.

Simple but effective change !! 

This approach is open to discussion hence your ideas are warmly welcome!!!

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