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Walking skeleton

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Noun
  1. 1
    An emaciated person.

    "The Soviet troops who liberated Auschwitz were shocked by the condition of the walking skeletons who greeted them."

  2. 2
    An initial, bare-bones implementation of a system or application which provides only the basic core functionality, in order to be able to demonstrate a minimal working product to be further fleshed out later.

    "Instead, think about how little you can do to create a walking skeleton of the product, and add more features as the features have value. Suppose you have a product with a variety of reports: sales by geography, kind of product,[…]"

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