Tech, Product & Agile Jargon · Associate level

"Spin up"

"Spin up" means to start or launch a new service, team, environment, or effort, usually quickly.

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How "Spin up" shows up at work

Comes from the sound of a hard drive starting. Now applied to anything that needs to exist soon: teams, Slack channels, cloud instances, working groups. If something needs to happen fast, someone will spin it up.

Buzzword

Can you spin up a staging environment for the demo tomorrow?

Plain English

Can you start up a staging environment for the demo tomorrow?

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