walking skeleton

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walking skeleton

noun walking skeletons

  1. An emaciated person. The Soviet troops who liberated Auschwitz were shocked by the condition of the walking skeletons who greeted them.
  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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@misc{walking_skeleton_2026,
  title = {walking skeleton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/walking%20skeleton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}