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agile

(verb) To work on something when you don't understand the problem space, the market, the actual goal of the product or really any engineering at all.

Engineer 1: They want me to build an inverse flux capcitor for our new marketing theme. Engineer 2: Man that sucks, what are you doing to do? Don't they know the IFC is a joke? Engineer 1: Well I guess I'll just have to scrum and agile one up.

by A.Hacker October 13, 2005

agile

The ability to waste a year making a social networking site. Pretending to write code when just copying it from else while to save time and effort. Basically another word for someone that can use google, steal other people's work then pretend what they are doing is difficult to management.

I am really good at agile developement. Look at this great search engine I have made, its the same as the one on another site - but with more bugs.

by Simon Telfer January 31, 2008

Agilent

The quality of being simultaneously agile and vigilant.

Batman is agilent, especially in the Batmobile. Always remember to be agilent after school.

by BatmanIsMyHomeboy January 21, 2011

Agile

Agile is a generalized term for a group of anti-social behaviors used by office workers to avoid doing any work while simultaneously giving the appearance of being insanely busy. Agile methods include visual distraction, subterfuge, camouflage, psycho-babble, buzzwords, deception, disinformation, and ritual humiliation. It has nothing to do with the art and practice of software engineering.

That crap was built using Agile. Worker A: Couldn't we be a bit more Agile? Worker B: How? Worker A: Let's order pizza at the Kanban.

by ALT-F4 November 24, 2012

Agility

The ability to change direction quickly in response to a stimulus. One of the key components in sport performance.

John may not be able to run the length of himself, but damn he's agile. For some positions in football, agility is king.

by Arsenal6 July 06, 2018

Agile

Organized mind numbing micromanagement.

He figured out how to double the battery life but since the agile practice strictly forbids thinking outside the current task, his design wasn't acknowledged. Due to insubordination he will not be receiving a bonus this year.

by nuninthemorning October 21, 2018

Agile

Doesn't fucking work, but doesn't fucking matter.

Let's be agile on this project.

by SgtThursday November 06, 2019