Glossary

PMBOK®
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PMSIV® with IPMA®
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Portfolio Management
Portfolio Management is about making sure your organisation makes the right investments and gets the returns it needs for organisational growth and delivery of its mission.

PRINCE2
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Project Management
Project Management is a structured, ‘lifecycle-based’ approach to help you do the right things at the right time in order to meet your project goals.It is the body of knowledge concerned with principles, techniques, and tools used in planning, control, monitoring, and the review of projects.

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Programme Management
Programme Management is co-ordinating a group of related, and interdependent, projects that support a common strategic objective. A single large or complex project may have the characteristics of a programme and require similar skills.

RAD
Rapid application development (RAD) is a software development methodology that uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping. The “planning” of software developed using RAD is interleaved with writing the software itself. The lack of extensive pre-planning generally allows software to be written much faster, and makes it easier to change requirements.

SCRUM
Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management often seen in agile software development, a type of software engineering. Although the Scrum approach was originally suggested for managing product development projects, its use has focused on the management of software development projects, and it can be used to run software maintenance teams or as a general project/program management approach.

Soft Systems
Soft systems methodology (SSM) is a systemic approach for tackling real-world problematic situations. Soft Systems Methodology is the result of the continuing action research that Peter Checkland, Brian Wilson, and many others have conducted over 30 years, to provide a framework for users to deal with the kind of messy problem situations that lack a formal problem definition.

SQL
SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS).

TOC®
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Weblogic
WebLogic is a server software application that runs on a middle tier, between back-end databases and related applications and browser-based thin clients. WebLogic is a leading e-commerce online transaction processing (OLTP) platform, developed to connect users in a distributed computing environment and to facilitate the integration of mainframe applications with distributed corporate data and applications. WebLogic server is based on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the standard platform used to create Java-based multi-tier enterprise applications.

WLI
WebLogic Integration is a comprehensive and flexible java-based solution that allows integrating systems, data and people within and across companies to make the most of existing assets wherever they are. With standards based connectivity for all major packaged applications, support for best practice patterns and a unified development environment designed to allow rapid construction of complex, transactional process scenarios.