Jim Philip's definitions

RAMP

Remote Access Machine on Physical hardware. An acronym to describe the virtual machine equivalent to being a physical machine. RAMPs are separate physical servers mainly remote accessed into from another computer. Often used for malware examination without risk of virtual machine detection.

Fire up the RAMP, we need to examine this piece of virtual machine escaping malware.

by Jim Philip August 25, 2024

therenor

A word combining "therefore" and "nor", used to show that a negative event applies sequentially to another event. Essentially a shorthand for “therefore, neither.”

"We did not win the semi-finals therenor the finals." (equivalent to: "We did not win the semi-finals; therefore, we did not win the finals" or "We did not win the semi-finals, nor did we win the finals.")

by Jim Philip January 6, 2026

planning poker

Planning poker, or scrum poker, is an estimation technique used primarily in Agile project management to determine the relative size of user stories or tasks.

During the sprint planning meeting, the team used planning poker to estimate the effort required for each user story.

by Jim Philip June 1, 2024