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A scheduling tool used to display the status of a project’s tasks. A Gantt chart shows each task’s duration as a horizontal line. The ends of the lines correspond to the task’s start and end dates.
Gap Analysis
1. The process of determining, documenting, and approving the variance between business requirements and system capabilities in terms of packaged application features and technical architecture.
2. The process of determining and evaluating the variance or distance between two items’ properties being compared.
Gateway
A software product that allows SQL-based applications to access relational and non-relational data sources.
Generator
A mechanism for transforming the specification of a module into executable program code, also known as a code generator.
Generic Data Architecture
A standard architecture for a specific purpose, such as purchase orders or student registration. It is an attempt to get organizations to do similar business functions in a similar manner.
Grainularity
A term used to describe how finally broken down a fact is in a table. For example, we might have wages individually recorded per employee in one table but we might have another table with wages aggregated by department.
Group Interview
Any session where users, stakeholders, or sponsors collectively discuss the requirements, priorities, design, or implementation of a business solution system.
Guideline
Text that provides instructions and advice for performing a task and suggests possible approaches.
