| Name | Abbreviation | Description | Active Directory | This is a database that comes with Windows2000 and holds information about users, groups, computers ond other network-objects and also lets you administer these. | Active Directory Service Interface | ADSI | The ADSI provides access to further information of objects in an active directory. | Adjusted continuous service date | ACSD | This means the date on which an employee's current period of continuous service
with the state - reduced for authorized breaks in service - is considered to have begun. | All Options Stink | AOS | Means a situation where all available opportunities are equally bad. Mostly used as abbreviation. | Alpha-Version | Describes a version of a software that is already running but has often a lot of errors in it. | American Standard Code for Information Interchange
| ASCII | Aquisition | Means buying a company and integrating it into ones one company. | ARPAnet | Predecessor of the internet in the 70ies and 80ies made by the Advanced Research Projects Agency. | Asset Management | Describes the process of managing equipment that is counted among the asset of a company. | Association for Project Management
| APM | The Association for Project Management is the largest independent professional body of its kind in Europe. | Asyncronized Transfer Mode | ATM | Automatic Call Distribution | ACD | An ACD is e.g. used at a technical hotline to distribute calls to a specific type of employees depending on the dialed number, the time of day or other criteria. | Available Market | Describes the part of the market both interested in a product and capable of buying it. | Backward-Compatible | Describes a piece of hardware or software that can use supplemental parts of erlier versions, can handle the output of erlier parts, etc. | Beowulf Cluster | Used as a description for cheap desktop-pc's that are interconnected to get a low-cost mainframe. | Berkeley Internet Name Domain | BIND | Beta-Version | This is a version of a software that is not completelly the version that is going to be published. Beta-versions have viewer errors than alpha-versions. | Beyond the Contract | Describes a service beyond the normal call of duty which is not a part of the referred contract. | Blocking Point | That describes one important part in a project that would slow or even halt the whole project should it not be finished in time. | Blue Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for applying low-voltage circuit breakers used in industrial and commercial power systems. | Blue Chip | A common stock that has continously paid dividents over a longer period of time. | Blue Flu | Describes action of police officers calling in sick en masse instead of a strike. | Bronze Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for energy management in industrial and commercial facilities. | Brown Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for industrial and commercial power systems analysis. | Budgeted Cost of Work Performed | BCWP | This means the budget already spent in the performed work of a project. | Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled | BCWS | This rather simple means what it says: how much money ist planed to be spent for the scheduled workpackages within a project. | Buff Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for protection and coordination of industrial and commercial power systems. | Bullshit Bingo | As with Buzzword Bingo you try to fill rows or columns from a table filled with buzzwords by marking the words when they are used in your meeting. In addition the rule sais you should shout bullshit when you achieved a complete row or column. | Business to Business | B2B | Describes business connections between two companies. | Business to Customer | B2C | Describes business connections between one company and one consumer. | Business to Government | B2G | describes business conections between one company and government and its institutions. | Buzzword Compliant | Describes a text that is stuffed with buzzwords. | Call of Duty | Your normal business operationes (e.g. as described in a contract). Can be used to distinguish what is in a contract and therefor already paid and what is not (as with "beyond the contract"). | Chainsaw Consultant | Means an external consultand that is contracted for searching and finding opportunities of how to reduce the number of employees in a company. | Change Management | CM | Descripes the process of managing changes in a company. In this context a change means mostly any modification on what is produced or the way production or administration works. | Cherry Picking | That means the behaviour of pichking the best parts range of offered products e.g. A service offering. | Chief Content Officer | Describes an employee that is responsible for the content of a companies website. | Chief Hacking Officer | Describes an employee that is responsible for verifiing IT-systems and that they are not vulnerable for harmful programs or other vulnerabilities. | Chief Knowledge Officer | Describes an employee that is responsible for the storing the knowledge of the company and managing the access to it. | Chief Learning Officer | Describes an employee that is responsible for the managing the necessary education of employees. | Chief Privacy Officer | Describes an employee that is responsible for the safety of company-data (intellectual property) and availably customer-data. | Chief Risk Officer | Describes an employee searching and evaluating the risks of potential damage on a company and being responsible for making measure-plans for the actions that have to take place when that damage occurs. | Cockroach Problem | Describes a problem that looks smaller than it turns out to be in the end. | Common Information Model | CIM | This is an object-oriented data-model that specifies the representation of devices to be managed. | Continuous Improvement (Process) | CIP | Describes the efforts of improving ones output in quality, number, fewer errors or similar things. It is based on data aggregated during business or derived from benchmarking. It is known as a vital part for achieving and keeping certifications like ISO9001. | Core Competency | Means that part of business a company or person is really good in. This may be a special product or service. | Dead Tree Edition | Describes a print-version of a digital publication. | Dictionary of Occupational Titles | DOT | Describes a document developed by the U.S. Department of Labor.
It contains job-descriptions based on analyses. | EFQM | EFQM | EFQM, a not for profit membership foundation, is the primary source for organisations in Europe looking to excel in their market and in their business. | Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
| EEPROM | Electronic Data Interchange for Administration Commerce and Transport
| EDIFACT | Emerald Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for powering and grounding electronic equipment. | Enterprise Systems Connection | Escon | This is an I/O-cable-connection invented by IBM used for Mainframes. | Extended Backus-Naur Form | EBNF | EBNF provides a set of rules how to write your code in a programming language. | Fibre Connection | Ficon | Ficon describes the use of the Escon (Enterprose systems Connection) protocol via fibre channel. | Finidh-to-Finish-Dependency | This means a dependency between two workpackages within a project where the successor can not finish as long as the predecessor has not finished. | Finish-to-Start-Dependency | This means a dependency between two workpackages within a project where the successor can not start as long as the predecessor has not finished. | Future Mode of Operations | Describes the way how things will work or will be done in a company after changes have been made to the present mode of operations. | Generally accepted accounting principles | GAAP | The principles and rules of accounting applicable to U.S.
companies, as prescribed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and its predecessors. | GNU Image Manipulation Program | GIMP | GNU Network Object Model Environment | GNOME | Gold Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for the design of reliable industrial and commercial power systems. | Green Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for grounding of industrial and commercial power systems. | Green Book | Standard for CD-I's. | Grey Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for electric power systems in commercial buildings. | Information Lifecycle Management | ILM | This is an enhanced version of HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management). | Integrated Services Digital Network | ISDN | International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | ICANN | Invitation for Bid
| IFB | This term is equivalent but maybe a little more general than RFP. | Joint Venture | The connection of a few companies for being able to better be present on the market. | Last-Mover Advantage | Describes the advantage that a company gains over its competitors by delaying their product development. | Latent Market | Describes the part of the market that is interested in a product not jet available. | Living Document | Describes a document that is supposed to be subject to change in future e.g. conduct guidelines in a company, drafts. | Management Attention | That means the attention a person, department or project draws upon oneself from the management. | Management Comics | A plastic and ironic expression for presentations e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint looked at by managers. | Master Certified Novell Engineer | MCNE | Meantime between Failure | MTBF | The statistically estimated time between the occurance of two failures. | Merger | Describes the event of two companies merging together to one | Microsoft Certified Product Specialist | MCPS | Microsoft Certified Systems Developer | MCSD | Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer | MCSE | National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System | NASDAQ | A primary market for over-the-counter trading of stocks. | Niche Marketing | Describes the actions of a company focussing on small parts of the market usually not covered by broadly sold products. | Object-Oriented Database Management System | OODMS | Orange Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for emergency and standby power systems for industrial and commercial applications | Orange Book | Standard for CD-R's. | outsourcing | Describes the action of a company to handle over some departments e.g. IT or HR to another company and so to focus on ones core competency. | Penetrated Market | Describes the part of an available market jet satisfied. | Practical Extraction and Report Language | PERL | Present Mode of Operations | Describes the way how things currently work or are being done in a company. Often used in advance of changes in comparison to the future mode of operations. | PRINCE2
| The standard UK government method for project management.
| Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter | RAMDAC | Red Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for electric power distribution for industrial plants. | Red Book | Standard for Audio CD's. | Redundant Array of Independent Disks | RAID | Describes a set of harddisks made redundant to achieve more information security and/or higher performance | Release | A collection of new and/or changed Configuration Items which are tested and introduced into the live environment together.
| Request for Information | This term describes the task of asking a vendor for informations about general prices/products/conditions. | Request for Proposal | RFP | This term describes a document that is used to request conditions/solutions/prices from one or more specific vendors. | Requirement | This means one or more conditions that have to be met for a certain state/milestone that one wants to reach. | Risc Management | That means the structured and dedicated treatment of risc in advance of any ocurring problem. | Rocket Science | Metaphorical description used as negation as in "riding a bike is not a rocket science". | Sarbanes-Oxley Act | SOA | Scope Statement | This term means the written description of the planed deliverables of a project together with objectives an assumptions. | Service Level Management | That covers the monitoring of service levels e.g. availability guaranteed by a contract. | Service Request | Every Incident not being a failure in the IT Infrastructure is called a Service Request. | Software Configuration Item | Just like a Configuration Item, but without hardware and services. | Start-to-Start-Dependency | This means a dependency between two workpackages within a project where the successor can not start as long as the predecessor has not started. | Synergy | Means the added value produced by two groups or processes put together compared to their sigle value added together. | Transfer Price | The price for that goods or services are sold between departments within one company. | Uniform Resource Locator | URL | The distinct adress of an internet ressource. | Urgent Request | Describes a request e.g. In a forum whose answer is wanted very urgently. | Violet Book | The draft recommended practice for short-circuit calculations in industrial and commercial power systems. | Webmaster | The person responsible for the technical part of a web-site. | White Book | The IEEE-recommended practice for electric systems in health care facilities. | White Book | Standard for Video-CD's. | Yellow Book | The IEEE guide for maintainance, operation and safety of industrial and commercial power systems. | Yellow Book | Standard for CD-ROM's. |
