60+ Work Acronyms You Should Memorize!
Since I moved to the US three years ago, I’ve seen a lot of different acronyms, some of them I already knew, but most of them I had no idea what they mean. I made a list of business acronyms I see in my daily work as a Program Manager. Maybe it might be useful for you too!
Here we go:
- AARM: Acquisition, activation, retention, monetization
- ABSS: Art Buying Spec Sheet
- AC: Actual Cost
- API: Application Programming Interface
- ARPU: Average revenue per user
- ASAP: As soon as possible
- B2B: Business to business
- B2C: Business to consumer
- BAC: Budget at completion
- BAU: Business as usual
- bc: Because
- BDM: Business Development Manager
- BID: Break it down
- BYOB: Bring Your Own Bottle
- CALMS: Culture, Automation, Measurement and Sharing
- CAR: Client Actionable Request
- CMS: Content management system
- COB: Close of business
- CPC: Cost per click
- CPU: Cost per unit
- CR: Conversion rate
- CRM: Customer relationship management
- CTA: Call to action
- CTR: Click-through rate
- DACI: Driver, Approver, Contributors, Informed
- DNS: Do not schedule
- DM: Direct message or direct mail
- DW: Doctor Who ❤
- DOD: Definition of Done
- DOR: Definition of Ready
- DRY: Don’t repeat yourself
- EOD: End of day
- EOW: End of week
- EOM: End of message
- EOY: End of year
- ETA: Estimated time of arrival
- ETC: Estimate to complete
- EV: Earned value
- F/U: Follow-Up
- FNAC: Feature Not a Company
- FYI: For your information
- GA: Google Analytics
- GA: General Availability
- GTM: Go to Market
- IAM: In a meeting
- IC: Individual Contributor
- ICYMI: In case you missed it
- IMHO: In my humble opinion
- IMO: In my opinion
- IoC: Indicator of Compromise
- Iot: Internet of things
- ISO: In search of
- KPI: Key performance indicator
- LET: Leaving early today
- LMK: Let me know
- LOE: Level of effort
- LTV: Life Time Value
- ML: Machine learning
- MMP: Minimal Marketable Feature
- MVP: Minimal Viable Product
- MoM: Month over Month
- NGO: Non-government Organization
- NP: No problem
- NRN: No reply necessary
- OOO or OOTO: Out of office
- OOPKT: Out of pocket
- OOS: Out of Scope
- OOS: Out of service
- OT: Off topic
- OTP: On the phone
- PDCA: Plan, Do, Check, and Act
- POC: Point of contact or Proof of concept
- POV: Point of view
- PPC: Pay per click
- PRD: Product requirements document
- PTO: Paid time off
- PV: Page view
- QA: Quality assurance
- Re: Referring to
- RECO: Recommendation
- RFP: Request for proposal
- ROI: Return on investment
- ROS: Run of site
- SaaS: Software as a service
- SDK: Software Development Kit
- SEO: Search engine optimization
- SM: Social media
- SOW: Statement of Work
- SWOT: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
- TBH: To be honest
- TL;DR: Too long, didn’t read
- TMA: Too many acronyms
- TML: Thank me later
- TWR: Tomorrow
- TYT: Take your time
- UI: User interface
- UV: Unique visitor
- UX: User experience
- W/e: Whatever
- WBS: Work breakdown structure
- WDYT: What do you think?
- WFH: Work from home
- WIIFM: What’s in it for me
- WIP: Work in progress
- WoW: Week over Week
- WWWWWH: who, what, when, where, why, and how
- xFN: Cross-functional
- YoY: Year over Year
- 1H: First half
- 2H: Second half
What’s your favorite acronym?
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