Minimum marketable feature (MMF)

The Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF) is a concept from agile software development that suggests that the minimum amount of work required to produce a software feature that can be delivered to customers should be the only work done on that feature. This is in contrast to the traditional approach of delivering all features that have … Read more

Patent troll

A patent troll is a person or company that buys and enforces patents against other companies, without actually using the patent themselves. Patent trolls are also known as non-practicing entities (NPEs). Patent trolls typically buy patents from other companies or from inventors who are no longer interested in developing or commercializing the patent. They then … Read more

Business email compromise (BEC, man-in-the-email attack)

A business email compromise (BEC) is a type of cyberattack in which an attacker compromises a business email account in order to defraud the company or its employees. The attacker will typically use the account to send spoofed emails that appear to be from the legitimate account holder, in order to trick the recipient into … Read more