IT Glossary of Terms

A project scope clearly identifies the goals, deadlines, and deliverables that a project is set to complete in a specific period of time. Setting a project scope ahead of time can help team members individually manage their time and stakeholders will know when to expect changes as the project progresses. 
 

Responsible for the success of the project, the project sponsor advocates for the project deliverable and provides resources for the project
 

Project Targets refer to a set of fixed goals or objectives that determine how a given project is expected to be done and what result or effect is supposed to be produced by the project. They identify project purpose while ensuring that there is no conflict between project goals and project deliverables.
 

The project team is the group of people responsible for executing the tasks and producing deliverables outlined in the project plan and schedule, as directed by the project manager, at whatever level of effort or participation defined for them.
 

A project timeline is a project management tool that helps you visualize how pieces of your plan all fit together. A project timeline can help you list out specific dependencies during the project planning process.
 

PeopleSoft Release Patchset - Patches/Fixes issued between PUM releases
 

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PS/nVision retrieves information from your PeopleSoft database and places it into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, in a form that helps you see the big picture, explore details, and make decisions. You use familiar Excel commands to format and analyze the data.
 

PeopleSoft Test Framework - Regression testing software for PeopleSoft applications
 

PeopleSoft Update Manager - is a PeopleSoft lifecycle management process that supports the downloading and application of updates and fixes to PeopleSoft environments
 

PeopleSoft Update Manager - is a PeopleSoft lifecycle management process that supports the downloading and application of updates and fixes to PeopleSoft environments
 

A set of step the system executes to remove values from tables in the database
 

Appsian People User Experience - used by SA for enhanced productivity and ease of use across devices (ie. mobile)
 

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation via the off-side rule. Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. 
 

Quality Assurance. As part of the Release Management and QA team, the QA team works many teams across UITS to perform Performance Test and Regression testing to ensure robust, well tested software is delivered.
 

Quick Address Pro - software used for address validation. Used in HR and SA applications
 

Used to assign work (incidents/it service requests) to team members based on organizational structure at the manager/smt/emt level.

A First-In-First-Out (FIFO) data structure. Often used for transaction processing.
 

A way to define and clarity roles and responsibilities clearly for a specific project. Defines the responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed parties 
 

A software library used to build User Interfaces
 

Specify the reason for change, including the business benefit that is expected from this change.

A PeopleSoft record is a table-like logical structure. Like a relational table, a record can contain columns with defined datatypes, precision, scale, and keys. 
 

An in-memory key/value store. Similar to a database.
 

Reduced sign-on (RSO) is a process that gives users the ability to access multiple applications using the same username and password but requires separate logins for each application. 
 

Report manager is part of the PeopleSoft Process Scheduler and provides a framework for viewing output from processes (typically reports) based on the user's privileges.
 

An email to the executive team sumamrizing the major incidents the impact, findings and next steps.

The appropriate course of action to mitigate the impact or the root cause of the problem, and implementing that solution in a timely and efficient manner

Resource allocation is the process of identifying exactly how many resources you can use for any one given project. A resource can be: Time, Budget, Team members, Equipment, Software.
 

limitation due to the availability of a resource.
 

In IT, 'resource contention' refers to a conflict over a shared resource between several components. Resource contention often negatively affects the performance of components competing for the resource.