general vocabulary – Praxeme Institute

Abstraction Principle

Precept according to which objects and concepts have to be modeled as they are, regardless of the organizational and technical circumstances

What somebody or something does

Observe and examine without proposing any change

Decision that balances the local point of view of a project with the global point of view of the architecture >>

Feature of a system made up of several elements linked by multiple relations and cannot be understood only as the sum of its parts >>

Unnecessary and artificial complexity >>

Perception element; that which is given through perception >>

Aggregation of know-how, procedures and methods into a unit of skills based upon generic knowledge >>

Any organized and willful entity or action >>

Principle (attributed to William of Ockham) that in explaining a thing no more assumptions should be made than are necessary >>

All the activities that make up the normal and regular running of the enterprise >>

Set made up of interdependent elements which, as a whole, presents its own particular identity and behaviors >>