5W

Five Ws: Who, What, Where, When, Why

A2DAM

Agile Alliance Debt Analysis Method

AADL

Architecture Analysis and Design Language

ADL

Architecture Description Language

ALM

Application Lifecycle Management

API

Application Programming Interface

ATAM

Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

CISQ

Consortium for IT Software Quality

CVE

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

CWE

Common Weakness Enumeration

DB

Database

FLOSS

Free, Libre, Open-Source Software

FTE

Full-time Equivalent

I18N

Internationalization

IRAD

Independent Research and Development

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

L10N

Localization

MVP

Minimum Viable Product

NPV

Net Present Value

OMG

Object Management Group

ROI

Return On Investment

SaaS

Software as a Service

SAFe ^®

Scaled Agile Framework ^®

SLOC

Source Lines of Code

SOA

Service-Oriented Architecture

SQALE

Software Quality Assessment based on Lifecycle Expectations

SysML

Systems Modeling Language

UML

Unified Modeling Language

UX

User Experience