The definitive handbook for anyone who’s ever whispered “what even is my job?” into a Slack thread.
Written by engineers, edited by HR, and approved by Legal, this guide explores the delicate balance between innovation, burnout, and pretending everything’s fine on Zoom.
Recommended for readers suffering from mild to severe purpose drift, meeting fatigue, or existential merge conflicts.
- CDD – Conference Driven Development (noun)
- CI/CD – Continuous Infighting / Controlled Destruction (noun)
- Cross-Functional (adj.)
- DevOps – Distributed Excuses via Over-Permissioned Pipelines (noun)
- Facepocalypse (noun)
- Git Blameflow (noun)
- Heisenbug (noun)
- Hero Mode (noun)
- MVP – Minimum Viable Paradox (noun)
- Ohnosecond (noun)
- Praise-gasam (noun)
- RDD – Résumé Driven Development (noun)
- Retrospective Amnesia (noun)
- Root Cause Theatre (noun)
- Schrödinger’s Deadline (noun)
- Schrödinger’s Project (noun)
- Scope Creep (noun)
- Slacklash (noun)
- Specifiction (noun)
- Sprintnesia (noun)
- SRE – System Repair Engineer (noun)