" methodology "

 [ "Methodologize" ]

1: Verb form of the noun "methodology." Methodology is defined as: a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences. Philosophy. a. the underlying principles and rules of organization of a philosophical system or inquiry procedure. b. the study of the principles underlying the organization of the various sciences and the conduct of scientific inquiry. Education. a branch of pedagogics dealing with analysis and evaluation of subjects to be taught and of the methods of teaching them. To methodologize is to perform any of the above definitions.

  * e.g.,  ... For this analysis, I will methodologize Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye using cultural and anti-racist feminist criticism. 

 [ "agile methodology" ]

1: No one has a clue what this means. Companies use the term to make themselves look organized and modern, employees use it because companies do. Many companies who claim to use agile actually use the waterfall approach and do not know the difference.

  * e.g.,  ... Interviewer asked, "Have you ever used the agile methodology?" 

 [ "scrum methodology" ]

1: An agile methodology primarily used for software application development related projects where you talk more about what you are going to do and spend less time actually doing it.

  * e.g.,  ... "Do we really need to have these update meetings every 2 hours? You want to know what I did for the past two hours, I was in other meetings, just like the two hours prior. I haven't wrote jack shit for code, but I am really getting sick of hearing Brenda say, 'Can you see my screen now?'" 

 [ "methodological naturalism" ]

1: The philosophy that natural phenomena should be explained with naturalistic explanations when doing science.

  * e.g.,  ... Science without methodological naturalism would accept astrology as a field of science. 

 [ "methodological naturalism" ]

2: In contrast with metaphysical naturalism, it does not commit one to ruling out the existence of the supernatural.

 [ "II Methodology" ]

1: The practice of exercising ignorance and idiotic actions by a person, institution, organization, community, etc.

  * e.g.,  ... "You are a perfect example of ii methodology " 

 [ "Agile Methodology" ]

1: A work-group paradigm for software engineers where all the people in your work-group sit near each other, and little or no official documentation is required in the written code. This is to get working code out faster in order to keep pace with the competition.

  * e.g.,  ... Our new company owner is instituting Agile Methodology and I don't know how that will work out after 12 years of the documentation requirement being being beaten into me. 

 [ "Nicastro Methodology Consideration" ]

1: * The Nicastro Methodology (named for a small town in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy) is the methodology whereby one does not read any of the descriptions/instructions in the email itself, but forges right ahead into whatever action is required (in this case going to the link). It is usually followed by follow-up texts to the author asking 3 to 4 questions - all of which are answered in the original e-mail. Consideration is given to this methodology by acknowledging that it is going to happen anyway and posting the link first and foremost in the email. The virtue of reading this far is indicative that you do not subscribe to this methodology.

  * e.g.,  ... I used the Nicastro Methodology Consideration and put the link right in the first line of my email. 

 [ "Auto-Populous Methodology" ]

1: A fake buzzword you throw into a technology conversation to test if someone really knows what they are talking about

  * e.g.,  ... We strive to ensure an auto-populous methodology permeates our entire technology stack.