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.

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.

A mechanism for transforming the specification of a module into executable program code, also known as a code generator.