Glossary of Development / Business Terms

Acronym

Meaning

Context

Acronym

Meaning

Context

NACK / NAK

No acknowledgement / not acknowledged

Inter-System communication

abend

Abnormal end

Inter-System communication

Epic

Business driven unit of functionality

Planning and articulation

Story

Business driven user requirement

Planning and articulation

Sub-task

Development driven task to fulfil story

Planning and articulation

Sprint

Window of time to act on committed work

Planning and articulation

Backlog

List in priority order of work to be done

Planning and articulation

Miro

Software for charting, designing

Business Analysis

Figma

Software for designing UX/UI

UI Design

Sunny-day scenario

Scenario whereby everything works perfectly

Business Analysis

Entity framework

Microsoft's primary means of interacting between .NET applications and relational databases. Entity Framework is an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) which is a type of tool that simplifies mapping between objects in your software to the tables and columns of a relational database.

Programming

(Microsoft)

Stored Procedure

Reusable procedures stored in the SQL schema. Access like this:
YourDB -> Programmability -> Stored Procedures"

Programming

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