Project Management Plan Page 23
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Joint Application Design (JAD) - The combined effort of client, program, and development
staff to define and elicit requirements for a system (JAR) or design a system (JAD).
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Lag - The amount of time after one task is started or finished before the next task may be
started or finished.
Lead - The amount of time that precedes the start of work on another task.
Local Area Network (LAN) – A communications system confined to a limited area, typically a
building, occasionally a group, and linking computers together via cable.
Glossary of Terms* (continued)
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Maintenance – Refers to the ongoing activity that keeps software functioning in a technical and
business environment (production).
Methodology – A set of formal protocols followed when performing a task.
Middleware – Software that hides the complexity of the networked computing environment from
the users and application programmers.
Milestone – A major checkpoint in the activities involved in a project. A clearly defined point in a
project that summarized the completion of a related set of tasks.
Model - A way of looking at reality, usually for the purpose of abstracting and simplifying it to
make it understandable in a particular context.
Modular Programming – Programming that has as its fundamental assumption that a large
piece of software should be separated into its constituent parts or modules thereby making for
easier and faster development and maintainability. Modules were traditionally called subroutines
or functions and now are often called objects.
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Network – Describes the physical hardware and software connections between computers
allowing information to be shared and electronic communications to take place.
Network Diagram - The logical representation of tasks that defines the sequence of work in a
project.
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