GLOSSARY

This glossary includes terms and definitions not already defined or used in a different sense from the definitions in the glossary of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Fifth Edition (PMBOK® Guide) Glossary or in ISO/IEC/IEEE Standard 24765 for Systems and Software Engineering – Vocabulary (SEVOCAB).

Activity-Oriented WBS. A work breakdown structure in which activities and tasks are denoted by verbs that indicate work to be accomplished. Each task name includes the work product or work products to be produced by that task.

Anchor Point. A milestone in software scheduling at which a major project life cycle transition occurs.

Backlog. A set of software features awaiting development in a subsequent iteration.

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