Translation from Bureaucratese to English

[pboily]

Alright, I have to translate a text in French (summary of qualifications for a Computer Specialist hire), except I have no clue what these things actually mean in English. Does anyone know what these two phrases could possible refer to?

• "development of application in a large scale environment": would this mean something to the effect that the person we are looking for has produced some sort of very large or complicated program?
• have experience in "essential methodology": is that a specific term related to computers? what the hell can this possibly mean other than he or she should know how to write programs?

 

[Masquerouge]

Alright, I have to translate a text in French (summary of qualifications for a Computer Specialist hire), except I have no clue what these things actually mean in English. Does anyone know what these two phrases could possible refer to?

• "development of application in a large scale environment": would this mean something to the effect that the person we are looking for has produced some sort of very large or complicated program?

More accurately, that the application that you developped was used by a lot of users/had a lot of functionalities. I guess it implies that you know a bit about working in big organizations and evaluating impacts.

• have experience in "essential methodology": is that a specific term related to computers? what the hell can this possibly mean other than he or she should know how to write programs?

I think essential methodology refers to everything that's process-related, like how to write programs in such a way that other people can pick up on it, how to ensure correct filing and archiving, how to work in a hierarchy, what the base documentation consists of (SRS/specs, for instance).

If you need help with the French I can also help you

 

[warpus]

"development of application in a large scale environment"

This is referring to you having worked on a program as a part of a large development team. So say you worked on Microsoft Word on a team of 15, that would apply.

have experience in "essential methodology"

This is referring to stuff like Object oriented design fundamentals, blackbox testing, bottom-up design, the software lifecycle, client-server architecture, etc.

 

[Phlegmak]

Alright, I have to translate a text in French (summary of qualifications for a Computer Specialist hire), except I have no clue what these things actually mean in English. Does anyone know what these two phrases could possible refer to?

• "development of application in a large scale environment": would this mean something to the effect that the person we are looking for has produced some sort of very large or complicated program?
• have experience in "essential methodology": is that a specific term related to computers? what the hell can this possibly mean other than he or she should know how to write programs?

I can handle these questions!

Yes, you're right. These are business-ese nonsense phrases. After rereading the text you wrote a few times, I believe you are exactly correct.

Application in a large scale environment = complicated program. However, it could also mean a complicated program that must deal with multiple outside servers. For example, going to some business via a web service, then going to a database, then communicating asynchronously with another business via email, periodically checking a mailbox for a response, and so on.

I'm guessing that "essential methodology" refers to modern or common programming concepts and technologies such as object orientation, xml, and uml (I don't think I've ever used uml).

I have no other information to go on other than what you posted, so I'm guessing better descriptions for those phrases could be:

1. Complicated programs capable of communicating with multiple servers with diverse protocols.
2. Fundamental programming concepts such as object orientation and recursion.

I have very little to work with here, so I'm not sure I helped you at all.

 

[pboily]

I also don't have a lot to work with; I'm starting to think we might not actually want to be hiring somebody... thanks for the help.