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wheelinsupial on June 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Document Culture of Amazon

Map it somehow? What do you mean? There is a Wikipedia entry on it [1] that is a start.

To your point, maybe there needs to be an HN glossary of terms or something like that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-matter_expert

throwaaskjdfh on June 18, 2021 [–]

I mean map which companies use this SME acronym and which don't, similar to how "soda", "pop", and "coke" map to different regions of the USA.

wheelinsupial on June 19, 2021 | [–]

My hunch is it comes from companies that use PMI project managers. Maybe that maps to older non-tech companies, but I have no proof to back any of that up.

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