when companies pretend to be using Agile Delivery Methodologies within their Development teams or Organisation as a whole when in fact they are not. Examples of good practices
These are all examples of "Agwashing"
- Switching to Jira to create your waterfall project plan so you can tell management you're Agile
- Insisting the supplier creates a fully defined scope of work before starting the new Agile project
- Placing value upon completing work rather than making something work
It became obvious the new CTO was "Agwashing" when he started complaining about scopechange and non-delivery of Milestones
To "Aakash" someone is to suddenly turn on them after you've acted kind and civil to their face. But, in fact, the turn has been well planned and calculated since the beginning, and it is malicious in the utmost nature. Aakashing is a fine-tuned skill, based on how much of your target's time you can waste acting like you care. When you suddenly turn on your target, you have completely fucked them over. Have fun trying to bounce back from an Aakasher's attack.
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'