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firefighting

French translation: parer au plus pressé, colmater les brêches, jouer les pompiers...

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English term or phrase:firefighting
French translation:parer au plus pressé, colmater les brêches, jouer les pompiers...
Entered by: Anne Patteet

21:42 Nov 9, 2007
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology) / gestion des services métier
English term or phrase: firefighting
Bonjour, je voudrais m'assurer de la traduction correcte de firefighting dans ce contexte:

"The initial network hypergrowth combined with the hypergrowth of the early business often means plenty of *firefighting* for IT."
"It’s worth stating here that *firefighting* and otherwise reactive modes associated with Early IT should not be considered a black mark on IT itself. Reactive-mode IT is a necessary evil of any new business endeavor. This *firefighting* is more an indication of the sheer magnitude of effort necessary to build and manage a modern business network."
"As stated earlier, it is not necessarily bad that an IT organization lies in the Reactive stage. Only that the organization has not invested the time and material into elevating key personnel out of *firefighting* and into analysis and automation activities."

Il y a aussi un tableau montrant trois étapes: early IT, developing IT and Proactive IT. Sous "early IT", il y a notamment "reactive firefighting".
J'ai reçu comme suggestion, pour ce dernier, "veille réactive".

Merci d'avance pour vos réponses et conseils.
Anne Patteet
Local time: 19:03
parer au plus pressé
Explanation:
une situation courante dans le domaine de l'informatique

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Note added at 4 days (2007-11-14 03:08:45 GMT) Post-grading
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Merci Anne
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Michael H G (X)
Mauritius
Local time: 04:03
Grading comment
Voilà puisqu'il faut en choisir une, mais comme le suggère Olivier, il y a de quoi "moduler" avec toutes les bonnes réponses! Merci beaucoup à tous.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3jouer les pompiers de service
Anne Bohy
3 +2parer au plus pressé
Michael H G (X)
3 +1interventions urgentes/colmatage des brèches
CMJ_Trans (X)
3Veille réactive
Anne Diamantidis


  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Veille réactive


Explanation:
Oui, vu le contexte, ça me semble tout à fait plausible ! ;-)

Anne Diamantidis
Germany
Local time: 02:03
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
jouer les pompiers de service


Explanation:
C'est une expression couramment utilisée (en France) dans ce genre de contexte... Mais il faudra certainement reformuler autrement au moins certaines des occurrences !

Anne Bohy
France
Local time: 02:03
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PRO pts in category: 194

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Eric Le Carre
8 hrs
agree  Platary (X): Oui, et avec les autres propositions Anne a toute latitude pour moduler.
8 hrs
agree  Frederic Jacquier-Calbet: tout à fait, ou "jouer les pompiers" simplement
16 hrs
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
interventions urgentes/colmatage des brèches


Explanation:
parades

bon, il faudrait tourner la phrase autement mais ....

colmatage des brèches

CMJ_Trans (X)
Local time: 02:03
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 94

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Platary (X)
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
parer au plus pressé


Explanation:
une situation courante dans le domaine de l'informatique

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Note added at 4 days (2007-11-14 03:08:45 GMT) Post-grading
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Merci Anne

Michael H G (X)
Mauritius
Local time: 04:03
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 15
Grading comment
Voilà puisqu'il faut en choisir une, mais comme le suggère Olivier, il y a de quoi "moduler" avec toutes les bonnes réponses! Merci beaucoup à tous.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Eric Le Carre
4 hrs
  -> Merci Eric
agree  Platary (X)
5 hrs
  -> Merci Olivier
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