Monday, 21 October 2013

Distribulation

Todays word is distribulation - this is the sense of surprise when you're enterprise level feed is being read by some bigwig - who's very angry you turned it off - after emailing everyone you thought was using it ;)

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Sprunt

A sprunt is a runt of a sprint. Small, weedy, doomed. When the stories aren't well defined and the estimates didn't come from the team - Sprunt!

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Portmanatee

it's a new word (aka portmanteau) constructed of other words that is too clumsy and unwieldy to be taken seriously.

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Sarchasm

Sarchasm
The gulf between a dry wit and a dim-wit. If your humour is blunted on someone, that's the sarchasm.

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Propergation

Todays word is propergation - this is when information gets to the places it's meant to get to and no more. This word has fallen out of use with the advent of the IT era where information rarely gets to the places it's meant to and invariably ends up everywhere else instead.