A
Activity

A set of cohesive tasks of a process [ISO/IEC 12207].

Artifact

Information, which is not listed in ISO/IEC 29110 Part 5, but can help a VSE during the execution of a project.

 

C
Customer

Organization or person that receives a product or service.[ISO 12207:2008]

D
DP
Deployment Package - a set of artifacts developed to facilitate the implementation of a set of practices, of the selected framework, in a Very Small Entity.
P
PM
Project Management
Process

Process: set of interrelated or interacting activities which transform inputs into outputs [ISO/IEC 12207].

Product

Piece of information or deliverable that can be produced (not mandatory) by one or several tasks. (e. g. design document, source code).

Project

Endeavour with defined start and finish dates undertaken to create a product or service in accordance with specified resources and requirements. [ISO 12207:2008]

R
Resource

Asset that is utilized or consumed during the execution of a process.[ISO 12207:2008]

Role

A defined function to be performed by a project team member, such as testing, filing, inspecting, coding. [ISO/IEC 24765]

S
Step
In a deployment package, a taskis decomposed in a sequence of steps.
Sub-task
When a task is complex, it is divided into sub-tasks.
T
Task

Required, recommended, or permissible action, intended to contribute to the achievement of one or more outcomes of a process[ISO/IEC 12207].

V
VSE
Very Small Entity – an enterprise, organization, department or project having up to 25 people.
W
WBS
A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): is a fundamental project management technique for defining and organizing the total scope of a project, using a hierarchical tree structure. The first two levels of the WBS (the root node and Level 2) define a set of planned outcomes that collectively and exclusively represent 100% of the project scope. At each subsequent level, the children of a parent node collectively and exclusively represent 100% of the scope of their parent node.