Acronyms and Abbreviations

ADM: Architecture Development Method
AI: Artificial Intelligence
ALM: Application Lifecycle Management
API: Application Programming Interface
APM: Application Portfolio Management
ARTS: Association for Retail Technology Standards
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BABOK: Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
BI: Business Intelligence
BIM: Business Integration Method
BPA: Business Process Automation
BPM: Business Process Management
BPO: Business Process Outsourcing
BPR: Business Process Re-engineering
CAP: Consistency, Availability, and Partition-tolerance
CAPEX: Capital Expenditure
CAS: Complex Adaptive System
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CIO: Chief Information Officer
CISO: Chief Information Security Officer
CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional
CLD: Causal Loop Diagram
CMDB: Configuration Management Database
CMM: Capability Maturity Model
CMMI: Capability Maturity Model Integration
CMO: Chief Marketing Officer
CMS: Configuration Management System
CNCF: Cloud Native Computing Foundation
COBIT: Control Objectives for Information Technology
COO: Chief Operating Officer
COTS: Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CRM: Customer Relationship Management
CSA: Cloud Security Alliance
CSP: Cloud Service Provider
CTO: Chief Technical Officer
CVE: Common Vulnerability and Exposures
CWE: Common Weaknesses Enumeration
DBA: Database Administrator
DBCX: Digital Business Customer Experience
DEEP: Detailed, Estimated, Emergent, Prioritized
DIBB: Data, Insight, Belief, Bet
DMBOK: Data Management Body of Knowledge
DPM: Digital Product Management
DSS: Deliver, Service, and Support
DW: Data Warehouse
EBM: Enterprise Business Management
ECI: Empowered, Consulted, Informed
EDM: Evaluate, Direct, and Monitor
EDP: Electronic Data Processing
EDPAA: Electronic Data Processing Auditors Association
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
ESM: Enterprise Service Management
ETL: Extract, Transform, Load
ETOM: Enhanced Telecommunications Operating Model
FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FOSS: Free and Open-Source Software
GDPR: Global Data Protection Regulation
GLBA: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
GPL: GNU Public License
GRC: Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
GUI: Graphical User Interface
HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HiPPO: Highest Paid Person’s Opinion
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HVAC: High Volume Air Conditioning
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
IAASB: International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board
I&O: Infrastructure and Operations
I/O: Input/Output
IoT: Internet of Things
IP: Internet Protocol
ISACA: IS Audit and Control Association
ITGC: Information Technology General Control
ITGI: IT Governance Institute
ITIL: IT Infrastructure Library
ITPA: IT Process Automation
ITSM: IT Service Management
JVM: Java Virtual Machine
KPI: Key Performance Indicator
LOB: Line of Business
LPPD: Lean Product and Process Development
MVA: Minimum Viable Architecture
MVP: Minimum Viable Product
NIST: National Institute of Science and Technology
NVD: National Vulnerability Database
OODA: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act
OPEX: Operating Expense
OS: Operating System
OWASP: Open Web Application Security Project
PaaS: Platform as a Service
PCAOB: Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
PCI: Payment Card Industry
PDCA: Plan–Do–Check–Act or Plan–Do–Check–Adjust
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PII: Personally Identifiable Information
PLM: Product Lifecycle Management
PMBOK: Project Management Body of Knowledge
PMI: Project Management Institute
PMO: Project Management Office
POS: Point of Sale
PSI: Potentially Shippable Increment
R&D: Research and Development
RACI: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed
RAM: Random Access Memory
RDS: Relational Database Service
REST: Representational State Transfer
RFI: Request for Information
RFP: Request for Proposal
RFQ: Request for Quotation
SaaS: Software as a Service
SAFe: Scaled Agile Framework
SBCE: Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
SDLC: Software Development Lifecycle
SDN: Software-Defined Network
SIAM: Service Integration and Management
SLA: Service-Level Agreement
SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture
SOX: Sarbanes-Oxley (Act)
SPM: Service Portfolio Management
SQL: Structured Query Language
SRE: Site Reliability Engineering
SSDLC: Secure Software Development Lifecycle
STPA: Systems Theoretic Process Analysis
TBM: Technology Business Management
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
UML: Unified Modeling Language
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
UX: User Experience
VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
VSM: Value Stream Map
WBS: Work Breakdown Structure
WSJF: Weighted Shortest Job First
XP: eXtreme Programming