When you wait just long enough to provide an estimate that there is no chance of actually getting the task done on time.
If the engineer hadn't procrastimated for 2 weeks, we would've known the feature wasn't going to make it in before we published the release notes.
by Spicy B November 07, 2017
I received an acknowledgy from my friend who stood me up last week, they told me they felt really bad that I took it the wrong way.
by Spicy B December 17, 2009
When you intentionally provide an inflated estimate for a task because you really don't want to do it and you're hoping it will be a non-starter due to it's perceived size/cost/duration.
The software engineer provided an 18-month protestimate to product management for the new architecture that would've replaced much of his previous work.
by Spicy B November 06, 2017