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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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poc purgatory

/ˌpiː oʊ ˈsiː ˈpɜːrɡətɔːri/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Where a project is funded forever for almost working.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The state in which a proof of concept neither fails nor reaches production, persisting indefinitely as a pilot.

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See also
  • quick winA dashboard delivered fast to defer the slow question of who acts on it. The win is quick because the hard part was left out of scope.
  • roadmapA map drawn for a vehicle that has not been built, on a road that resets each quarter. Everything important lives just past the visible horizon.
  • vendor demoA film in which your problem is played by a stand-in with clean data, good lighting, and a definition of customer everyone in the scene shares.