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Glossary of Useful Links

Government technology is in the process of a significant modernization. This glossary includes many relevant terms that may be new to the public service. We also recommend the glossary posted at the United States Federal Government Services Agency (GSA) technical guides web site.

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12 factor

A

Acceptance Criteria

Agile

Application Manager

Application Performance (APM)

Architecture Review Board (ARB)

Architecture significant requirements (ASR)

B

Backlog

BC Dev Exchange

Build

Business Case

Business Analyst

C

Change Management

Citizen Services (CITZ)

Cloud Native

Code Review

Code Repository

Code With Us (CWU)

Concept Case

D

Definition of Done (DoD)

Definition of Ready (DOR)

Design System

Design Thinking

Deploy

Devhub

DevOps

Digital framework

Digital Playbook (Canada)

Digital Playbook (USA)

E

ELK stack

EPICS

Escalation

F

Feedback

Frameworks

G

GitHub

H

I

Information Management Branch (IMB)

J

Jenkins

K

Kanban

Knowledge Transfer

L

Lifecycle

Logging

Low Fidelity prototype

M

Methodologies (Agile)

Ministry Chief information Officer (MCIO)

MERN Stack

Ministry Information Security Officer (MISO)

Minimal Viable Product (MVP)

Metrics (application performance)

Modern Application

Monitoring

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

N

O

Office of the Chief Information officer (OCIO)

OCIO Digital Investment Office (OCIO-DIO)

Digital Investment office of the BC OCIO

Operations (Ops)

Operating Expense (OpEx)

P

Persona

Pipeline (Agile)

Playbooks (examples)

Principles (example)

Product Owner (PO)

Progressive Web App (PWA)

Project Charter

Project Inception

Project Governance

Project Review Board

Q

R

Release Management

Risk Assessment (IT)

Roadmap

Runbook

S

Scenarios

Scrum Master

Security

Senior Business Consultant

Single Page Application (SPA)

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Sprints

Sprint demo

Sprint retrospective

Sprint with Us (SWU)

Statement of Work (SOW)

Steering Committee

Story Owner

T

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Triage

U

User Experience (UX)

User Interface (UI)

User Journey Mapping

User Story

V

Value proposition

W

Way of working (WOW)

Waterfall

Wireframes

X

Y

Z