Cheat sheet: Beyond the demo

The 39 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.

1. A demo shows the path where everything goes right

Demodémo: a showing of a tool at work, on a path chosen so that everything goes right.
Happy pathcas nominal: the path through a tool where the user does everything right and nothing fails.
Prototypeprototype: a first working version of a tool, made quickly to try an idea before building it properly.
Edge casecas limite: a difficult value to test a tool with, such as zero, a decimal, a negative number or an empty field.
Access rulesdroits d'accès: rules that decide who can see or change each piece of data, such as each client seeing only their own files.
90-90 rulerègle des 90-90: a programmers' joke that the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90%.
AI agentagent d'IA: a program that reads and writes a project's files and runs commands, following your requests in a chat.

Pilotpilote, phase pilote: a first period when a small group of real users tries a tool, before everyone gets it.
Internal tooloutil interne: an app built only for a company's own staff, such as a dashboard or a booking tool for the team.
Security reviewaudit de sécurité: a check by a specialist who looks for ways an attacker could reach accounts or data.
GDPRRGPD: the European law on personal data, which applies as soon as a site collects a name or an email.
App store reviewvalidation sur les stores: the check that Apple and Google make on each new version of an app before it appears in their stores.
Prototypeprototype: a first working version of a tool, made quickly to try an idea before building it properly.

Estimateestimation: an approximate price or duration, given early, which can still change.
Unknowninconnue: a part of the work that nobody understands yet, such as another company's system, which makes an estimate uncertain.
Investigationétude préalable, spike: a short piece of work, often a few days, to clear the biggest unknown before estimating the rest.
Documentationdocumentation: the written guide to a system or a service, which explains how other software can connect to it.
Rangefourchette: a low and a high figure, such as €3,000 to €6,000, given instead of one exact number.

Estimateestimation: an approximate price or duration, given early, which can still change.
Rangefourchette: a low and a high figure, such as €3,000 to €6,000, given instead of one exact number.
Deadlineéchéance: the date when the work must be finished or the site must be online.
Scopepérimètre: everything a version of the project includes, written down so that everyone agrees on it.
Hofstadter's lawloi de Hofstadter: the rule that work always takes longer than you expect, even when you take this rule into account.

Availabilitydisponibilité: the share of the time that a site works, such as 99.9%, which still allows about 9 hours offline a year.
Downtimeindisponibilité: the time during which a site doesn't work for its visitors.
SLASLA, engagement de service: a provider's written promise about availability and response times, which says what it pays if it fails.
Service creditavoir: a small refund that a provider gives when it breaks its promise, usually much less than your lost sales.
On callastreinte: being ready to answer and fix problems outside working hours, such as at night.
Peakpic d'activité: the short period when a site has many more visitors or sales than usual, such as the weeks before Christmas.
Load testtest de charge: a test that sends the traffic of many visitors to a site at once, to check that it holds before a busy day.
Code freezegel des mises en production: a period, such as December for a shop, when nobody puts new changes online.
Virtual queuefile d'attente virtuelle: a waiting page that lets visitors into a busy site a few at a time, as for concert tickets.
Uptime monitoringmonitoring, supervision: a service that checks a site every few minutes and alerts you when it stops answering.

Demodémo: a showing of a tool at work, on a path chosen so that everything goes right.
Pilotpilote, phase pilote: a first period when a small group of real users tries a tool, before everyone gets it.
Rangefourchette: a low and a high figure, such as €3,000 to €6,000, given instead of one exact number.
Unknowninconnue: a part of the work that nobody understands yet, such as another company's system, which makes an estimate uncertain.
Availabilitydisponibilité: the share of the time that a site works, such as 99.9%, which still allows about 9 hours offline a year.
Service creditavoir: a small refund that a provider gives when it breaks its promise, usually much less than your lost sales.

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