Glossary of Acronyms 

Artificial Intelligence (kind of a poorly-named technology, since even though it has smarts—and despite what some of the popular AI tool makers would want us to believe—it does not actually possess intelligence, which makes its name rather misguiding. The long and the short of it is this: AI and AI tools, while smart, can neither think nor reason.)

DCS*

Detailed Change Specification (refers strictly, and only, to requirements specification. Moreover, its core content is: 'what is the desired change,' 'what is being changed,' or, 'what changed' from a functional design point of view, and only from this point of view. Simply put, "mainly the delta, please" –– a novel concept, named "The Lexi Rule†.")

ESDM*

Enterprise Software Development and Maintenance (i.e., DevOps)

IT

Information Technology

MCEA*

Mission-Critical Enterprise Application

ODA*

Ongoing Development Activity

PMO

Program Management Office

QA

Quality Assurance

RA*

Release Activity (can be equated to activity that occurs within a sprint/bolt)

RD

Requirements Definition

RDM

Requirements Definition and Management

RDMF*

Requirements Definition and Management Framework††

RM

Requirements Management

SCR

System Change Request (aka Product Backlog Item (PBI,) Backlog Item, Change Request (CR,) etc.)

SDD

Spec-Driven Development

SDLC

Software Development Life Cycle

SIT

System Integration Testing

UAT

User Acceptance Testing

UCM

Use Case Model