A dictionary of modern lifeOriginal definitions · Illustrated satire
Lucifer’s Lexicon

Modern life, properly defined.

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VELOCITY

n.A number derived from the past and employed to disappoint the future.

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing an exhausted software team running past last sprint's velocity while Lucifer moves a higher target farther into the future.
The illustrated dictionary VELOCITY
A connected train of thought

  1. Agile & Delivery

    STORY POINT n.

    An imaginary unit of effort, valued chiefly for the precision with which it obscures time.

  2. Agile & Delivery

    AGILE adj.

    A software-development method for treating the absence of a plan as adaptability.

  3. Agile & Delivery

    SAFE n.

    A system for preserving the spirit of agility by protecting management from it.