Glossary

Words we use, what they mean, and where they come from.

A

Anchor Book

An artifact that co-exists with the code in the repository and provides a living home for human judgement and context of the system.

Origin / attribution: Kari Wilhelm

First used in Principles of Anchor Engineering

M

Megasystem

The system-of-systems that has to all work together to produce an outcome. If you have to perform some sort of "integration activity", you're adding a piece into a megasystem.

Origin / attribution: Tina

First used in We need to talk about humanoid robots.

Mushy middle

The operational grey zone between the happy path and defined exception path where human beings absorb process variance invisibly. Where products go to die.

Origin / attribution: Tina

First used in That’s Not An Exception Path