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Scenario Name
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Used to uniquely identify a particular count within a phase for a project or for an application. Eg. There may be severa...
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Source: ( Total Metrics - Function Point Consultants ) |
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Schedule Control
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Controlling changes to the project schedule....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Schedule Development
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Analyzing activity sequences, activity durations, and resource requirements to create the project schedule....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
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The ratio of work performed to work scheduled (BCWP/BCWS). See earned value....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Schedule Variance (SV)
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(1) Any difference between the scheduled completion of an activity and the actual completion of that activity. (2) In ea...
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scheduled Finish Date (SF)
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The point in time work was scheduled to finish on an activity. The scheduled finish date is normally within the range of...
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scheduled Start Date (SS)
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The point in time work was scheduled to start on an activity. The scheduled start date is normally within the range of d...
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scope
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The sum of the products and services to be provided as a project....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scope Baseline
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See baseline....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scope Change
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Any change to the project scope. A scope change almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scope Change Control
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Controlling changes to project scope....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scope Creep/Gallop
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Additional functionality that was not specified in the original requirements, but is identified as the scope is being cl...
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Source: ( IFPUG CPM 4.1 ) |
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Scope Definition
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Decomposing the major deliverables into smaller, more manageable components to provide better control....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scope of the FSM
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The set of Functional User Requirements to be included in a specific FSM instance....
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Source: ( ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7:14143-1 ) |
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Scope Planning
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Developing a written scope statement that includes the project justification, the major deliverables, and the project ob...
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Scope Verification
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Ensuring that all identified project deliverables have been completed satisfactorily....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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S-Curve
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Graphic display of cumulative costs, labor hours, or other quantities, plotted against time. The name derives from the S...
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Senior Manager
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A management role at a high enough level in an organization that the primary focus is the long-term vitality of the orga...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Sensitivity Analysis
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A technique for discovering the behavior of a system by changing one input at a time by a small amount and determining t...
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Source: ( SEI:SE-CMM ) |
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Service Level Agreement
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A written agreement between a service provider and Customer(s) that documents agreed service levels for a service....
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Source: ( ITIL Sept 2002 ) |
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Should-Cost Estimates
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An estimate of the cost of a product or service used to provide an assessment of the reasonableness of a prospective con...
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Software
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An organized set of instructions, data, and interrelationships which when loaded into the program execution area of a co...
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Source: ( IEEE SESC:729 ) |
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Software Acquisition Management Personnel
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Those individuals who are trained, educated, or experienced in software acquisition management and who are either assign...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Acquisition Plans
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The collection of plans, both formal and informal, used to express how software acquisition activities will be performed...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Acquisition Process
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A set of activities, methods, practices, and transformations that people use to acquire software and the associated prod...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Acquisition Process Assets
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A collection of entities, maintained by an organization, for use by projects in developing, tailoring, maintaining, and ...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Acquisition Project
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An undertaking that is focused on acquiring the software components and associated documentation of a system. A software...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Baseline Audit
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An examination of the structure, contents, and facilities of the software baseline library to verify that baselines conf...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Capability Evaluation
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(1) An appraisal by a trained team of professionals, using a method such as the SEI software capability evaluation metho...
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Source: ( SEI:SE-CMM ) |
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Software Configuration Item (SCI)
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As "configuration item" in ISO 10007 excluding hardware and services, recursively to identify individual software items ...
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Source: ( SC7/WG8:15846 ) |
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Software Configuration Management (SCM)
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The process of applying Configuration Management (see ISO 10007) throughout the software life cycle to ensure the comple...
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Source: ( SC7/WG8:15846 ) |
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Software Development Plan
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The collection of plans that describe the activities to be performed for the software project. It governs the management...
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Source: ( SEI:SE-CMM ) |
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Software Engineering Environment (SEE)
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The set of automated tools, firmware devices, and hardware necessary to perform the software engineering effort. The aut...
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Source: ( ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7:14764 ) |
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Software Engineering Group
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The collection of individuals (both managers and technical staff) who have responsibility for software development and m...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Maturity
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The ability of an organization to achieve a controlled and measured process as the foundation for continued improvement ...
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Source: ( IFPUG CPM 4.1 ) |
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Software Engineering Personnel
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Those individuals who are trained, educated, or experienced in software engineering and who are either assigned to or su...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Engineering Process Group
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A group of specialists who facilitate the definition, maintenance, and improvement of the software process used by the o...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Engineering Staff
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The software technical people (e.g., analysts, programmers, and engineers), including software task leaders, who perform...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Integration
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A process of putting together selected software components to provide the set or specified subset of the capabilities th...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Life Cycle
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The period of time that begins when a software product is conceived and ends when the software is no longer available fo...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Manager
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Any manager, at a project or organizational level, who has direct responsibility for software development and/or mainten...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Measurement
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The quantification of the software production process and its product in order to supply meaningful and timely managemen...
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Source: ( Total Metrics - Function Point Consultants ) |
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Software Metrics
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The resulting values obtained from the Software Measurement process, which indicate the performance efficiency, cost eff...
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Source: ( Total Metrics - Function Point Consultants ) |
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Software Plans
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The collection of plans, both formal and informal, used to express how software development and/or maintenance activitie...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Process
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The process or set of processes used by an organization or project to plan, manage, execute, monitor, control and improv...
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Source: ( ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7:15504-9 ) |
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Software Process Improvement Plan
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A plan, derived from the recommendations of a software process assessment, that identifies the specific actions that wil...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Process Maturity
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The extent to which a specific process is explicitly defined, managed, measured, controlled, and effective. Maturity imp...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Product
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The complete set, or any of the individual items of the set, of computer programs, procedures, and associated documentat...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Project
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An undertaking requiring concerted effort, which is focused on analyzing, specifying, designing, developing, testing, an...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Project Life Cycle
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Model of a software project beginning with the decision to develop, operate and/or maintain a software product and endin...
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Source: ( SC7/WG8:16326 ) |
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Software Project Management (SPM)
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Procedures, practices, technologies and knowledge (skill, background and wisdom to apply knowledge effectively in practi...
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Source: ( SC7/WG8:16326 ) |
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software project management (SPM) plan
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A plan of plans to manage the execution of the appropriate software life cycle processes, resources and products....
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Source: ( SC7/WG8:16326 ) |
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Software Project Management (SPM) Team
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An aggregate of personnel assigned management responsibilities for a software project. SPM team members have individual/...
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Source: ( SC7/WG8:16326 ) |
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Software Project Manager (PM)
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Individual with final responsibility for a software product throughout the entire software project life cycle (i.e., con...
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Source: ( SC7/WG8:16326 ) |
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Software Quality Assurance
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(1) A planned and systematic pattern of all actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a software work produc...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Software Quality Goal
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Quantitative quality objectives defined for a software work product....
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Quality Management
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The process of defining quality goals for a software product, establishing plans to achieve these goals, and monitoring ...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Requirement
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A condition or capability that must be met by software needed by a user to solve a problem or achieve an objective. [IEE...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Software Work Product
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Any artifact created as part of defining, maintaining, or using a software process, including process descriptions, plan...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Source Selection
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Choosing from among potential contractors....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Specification
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A document prepared to support acquisition and life-cycle management that clearly and accurately describes essential tec...
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Source: ( SEI:SE-CMM ) |
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Speed of Delivery
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Measures the ability of a team to deliver a quantity of software over a period of time. It is defined as the Functional ...
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Source: ( ISBSG-Release 6 1999 ) |
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Staff
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The people, including task leaders, who are not managers and who are responsible for accomplishing the assigned business...
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Source: ( SEI:SE-CMM ) |
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Staff Acquisition
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Getting the human resources needed assigned to and working on the project....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Stage
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A partition of the software effort that is of a manageable size and that represents a meaningful and measurable set of r...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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Stakeholder
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Individuals and organizations who are involved in or may be affected by project activities....
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Standard Development Environment
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A set of guidelines describing a standard process lifecycle for the development of software within an organisation....
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Source: ( Total Metrics - Function Point Consultants ) |
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Standard Process
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The operational definition of the basic process that guides the establishment of a common process in an organization. It...
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Source: ( SEI:SE-CMM ) |
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Start Date
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A point in time associated with an activity’s start, usually qualified by one of the following: actual, planned, estimat...
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Statement of Work (SOW)
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A narrative description of products or services to be supplied under contract...
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Source: ( PMI:PMBOK ) |
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Strategic Vision
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The political, economic, and psychological forces of an organization that ensure the maximum support for the adopted mar...
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Source: ( SEI:SE-CMM ) |
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Suppliers
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The development, manufacturing, verification, and deployment personnel that define, design, code, fabricate, assemble, i...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Support Function
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The tasks, actions, and activities to be performed and the system elements required to provide operations, maintenance, ...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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System
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Is used synonymously for ‘software application’. It is assumed that an organisation will develop and maintain one or mor...
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Source: ( Total Metrics - Function Point Consultants ) |
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Systems Analysis
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A systematic investigation of a real or planned system to determine the information requirements and processes of the sy...
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Source: ( ISO/IEC JTC1/SC1:2382-20 ) |
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System Architecture
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The composite of the functional, physical, and foundation architectures, which form the basis for establishing a system ...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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System Design
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The product of the development process which provides sufficient details, drawings, or other pertinent information, on t...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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System Effectiveness
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A measure of the ability of a system to satisfy its intended operational uses when called upon to do so. System effectiv...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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System Engineering Group
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The collection of individuals (both managers and technical staff) who have responsibility for specifying the system requ...
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Source: ( SEI:SW-CMM ) |
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System Integration
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The progressive assembling of system components into the whole system....
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Source: ( ISO/IEC JTC1/SC1:2382-20 ) |
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Systems Engineering
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The selective application of scientific and engineering efforts to: transform an operational need into a description of ...
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Source: ( SEI:SA-CMM ) |
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Systems Engineering Process
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A comprehensive, iterative problem solving process that is used to: (a) transform validated customer needs and requireme...
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Source: ( SEI:SE-CMM ) |
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