Glossary
The terms your engineers use.
A working reference for technical and product concepts that come up in every IT project.
Technical Debt
The accumulated cost of shortcuts taken during software development.
Read definitionSovereign Cloud
Cloud infrastructure that stays under the jurisdiction of a specific country or region.
Read definitionContinuous Delivery
The practice of keeping software always ready to ship to production.
Read definitionAgile Transformation
The process of adopting agile methods across an engineering organization.
Read definitionRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
A technique that grounds a language model in your own data at query time.
Read definitionShadow IT
Technology used within an organization without official IT approval.
Read definitionTime to Market
The time from product idea to availability for users.
Read definitionObservability
The ability to understand what is happening inside a system from its outputs.
Read definitionProduct Owner
The person responsible for maximizing the value of a product developed by a Scrum team.
Read definitionScrum Master
The servant-leader responsible for the effectiveness of a Scrum team.
Read definitionNIS2
The EU directive that sets cybersecurity requirements for critical infrastructure operators.
Read definitionLarge Language Model (LLM)
An AI model trained on massive text datasets to understand and generate human language.
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