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Glossary of Terms

Term Definition
ADR (Architecture Decision Record) A formal document that captures an important architecture decision, including the context, decision rationale, consequences, and alternatives considered. ADRs support a sign-off workflow and revision chain
Approval Status The review state of a card: Draft, Approved, Broken, or Rejected. Approved cards change to Broken when edited
Bookmark / Saved View A saved filter, column, and sort configuration in the Inventory that can be reloaded with one click
BPM Business Process Management — the discipline of modeling, analyzing, and improving business processes
BPM Row Order The display order of process type rows (Core, Support, Management) in the BPM process navigator, configurable by dragging rows
BPMN Business Process Model and Notation — the standard notation for modeling business processes (version 2.0)
Business Capability What an organization can do, regardless of how it does it
Calculation An admin-defined formula that automatically computes a field value when a card is saved
Card The basic unit of information in Turbo EA representing any architecture component
Card Type The category a card belongs to (e.g., Application, Business Process, Organization)
Confidence Score A 0–100% rating indicating how reliable an AI-generated description is
Data Quality A 0–100% completeness score based on filled fields and their configured weights
Diagram A visual architecture diagram created with the embedded DrawIO editor
File Attachment A binary file (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, images, up to 10 MB) uploaded directly to a card via the Resources tab
Fiscal Year The 12-month period used for budgeting and financial reporting. Configurable via Admin > Settings — the start month (January through December) determines how PPM budget lines are grouped
DrawIO The embedded open-source diagramming tool used for visual architecture diagrams
Cost Line A budget or actual cost entry (CapEx/OpEx) in a PPM initiative, used to track financial spending
Enterprise Architecture (EA) The discipline that organizes and documents an organization's business and technology structure
EOL (End of Life) The date when a technology product loses vendor support. Tracked via integration with endoflife.date
Gantt Chart A visual timeline with horizontal bars showing project schedule, duration, and progress for each work package and task
Initiative A project or program involving changes to the architecture
Lifecycle The five phases a component goes through: Plan, Phase In, Active, Phase Out, End of Life
LLM Large Language Model — an AI model that generates text (e.g., Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini)
MCP Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets AI tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor) connect to external data sources. Turbo EA's built-in MCP server provides read-only access to EA data with per-user RBAC
Metamodel The data-driven model that defines the platform's structure: card types, fields, relations, and roles
Milestone A significant event or completion point in a project timeline, shown as a diamond indicator in the Gantt chart
Notification An in-app or email alert triggered by system events (todo assigned, card updated, comment added, etc.)
OData Feed A JSON data feed available on saved inventory views (bookmarks) for consumption by external tools such as Power BI or Excel
Ollama An open-source tool for running LLMs locally on your own hardware
Portfolio A collection of applications or technologies managed as a group
PPM Project Portfolio Management — the discipline of managing a portfolio of projects and initiatives with budgets, risks, tasks, and status reporting
Reference Number An auto-generated sequential identifier for ADRs (e.g., ADR-001, ADR-002) that provides a unique, human-readable label
Relation A connection between two cards that describes how they relate (e.g., "uses", "depends on", "runs on")
Resources Tab A card detail tab that consolidates Architecture Decision Records, file attachments, and document links in one place
RAG Status Red-Amber-Green health indicator used in PPM status reports for schedule, cost, and scope (mapped to Off Track, At Risk, On Track)
Risk Score An auto-calculated value (probability x impact) that quantifies the severity of a project risk in the PPM risk register
Saved Report A persisted report configuration with filters, axes, and visualization settings that can be reloaded
Revision (ADR) A new version of a signed ADR that inherits the content and card links from the previous version, with an incremented revision number
Section A groupable area of the card detail page containing related fields, configurable per card type
Signatory A user designated to review and sign off on an ADR or SoAW document. The signing workflow tracks pending and completed signatures
SoAW Statement of Architecture Work — a formal TOGAF document defining scope and deliverables for an initiative
SSO Single Sign-On — login using corporate credentials via an identity provider (Microsoft, Google, Okta, OIDC)
Subtype A secondary classification within a card type (e.g., Application has subtypes: Business Application, Microservice, AI Agent, Deployment). Each subtype acts as a sub-template that can control field visibility
Subtype Template The configuration of which fields are visible or hidden for a specific subtype. Admins configure this in the metamodel admin by clicking on a subtype chip
Stakeholder A person with a specific role on a card (e.g., Application Owner, Technical Owner)
Survey A data-maintenance questionnaire targeting specific card types to collect information from stakeholders
Tag / Tag Group A classification label organized into groups with single-select or multi-select modes, optional type restrictions, and an optional mandatory flag that blocks approval and feeds the data-quality score
Mandatory Tag Group A tag group flagged as required. Applicable cards cannot be approved until at least one tag from the group is attached, and satisfying it contributes to the card's data-quality score
EU AI Act Semantic Detection A TurboLens compliance pass that asks the LLM to flag cards embedding AI / ML capabilities (LLMs, recommendation engines, computer vision, scoring, chatbots, …) even when they are not explicitly classified as AI Agent / AI Model. Such findings are marked AI-detected
Initial vs Residual Risk Two assessments captured on every risk in the Risk Register. Initial is the unmitigated probability × impact; Residual is the post-mitigation probability × impact, editable once a mitigation plan exists. Both derive a level via the 4×4 matrix
Risk Reference A monotonic human-readable identifier (R-000123) assigned on risk creation. It stays visible in promoted-finding buttons (Open risk R-000123) and in the owner's linked Todo description
TOGAF The Open Group Architecture Framework — a widely used EA methodology. Turbo EA's SoAW feature aligns with TOGAF
Status Report A monthly PPM report tracking project health via RAG indicators for schedule, cost, and scope, along with accomplishments and next steps
Web Portal A public, read-only view of selected cards accessible without authentication via a unique URL
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) A hierarchical decomposition of project scope into work packages, each with start/end dates and completion tracking. Used in the PPM Gantt chart
Work Package A logical grouping of tasks within a Gantt timeline that has its own start date, end date, and completion percentage
AI Suggestion An auto-generated card description produced by combining web search results with a Large Language Model (LLM)
AI Verdict A user's confirmation or rejection of the LLM's AI-bearing classification for a card (hasAiFeatures = true / false). Persists across re-scans so LLM drift cannot silently change the EU AI Act scope
GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance — the unified workspace at /grc with three tabs (Governance, Risk, Compliance) consolidating EA Principles, ADRs, the Risk Register and the Security & Compliance scanner
Phase G TOGAF ADM "Implementation Governance" phase. The source of the Risk Register's vocabulary and lifecycle
Risk Register Landscape-level register of architecture risks aligned to TOGAF Phase G. Lives at /grc?tab=risk. Distinct from the initiative-scoped risks captured inside PPM
Risk Owner The user accountable for a risk. Assignment auto-creates a system Todo on the owner's Todos page and fires a risk_assigned notification
Mitigation Task An owned work item attached to a Risk that captures concrete mitigation activity. Can be one-shot or recurring (daily / weekly / monthly / yearly). Recurring tasks roll forward calendar-correctly on completion
Mitigation Task Occurrence One scheduled instance of a Mitigation Task. Moves through scheduledopendone / skipped. Snapshots the assignee at open and the owner-at-completion at close so audit answers survive owner rotation
Lead Time (Mitigation Task) Days before due_date a scheduled cycle is promoted to open and lands on the assignee's Todos. Smart per-unit defaults (1 / 2 / 7 / 14 for daily / weekly / monthly / yearly) capped at half the cycle
Compliance Finding A row in the Compliance register against a regulation × article. Authored manually by a reviewer or produced by a TurboLens AI scan; both kinds share the same lifecycle and can be promoted to a Risk
Macro Capability Level-0 grouping above L1 in the Capability Catalogue. Lands as a BusinessCapability card with attributes.capabilityLevel = "Macro" and a catalogueId prefixed MC-. Relaxes the hierarchy depth limit to 6
Layered Dependency View (LDV) Turbo EA's house notation for dependency diagrams: cards grouped into the four EA layers as swim lanes, coloured by card type, with proposed cards rendered as dashed-border nodes with a green "NEW" badge. Used by the Dependencies Report, the Card Detail dependency section, and the TurboLens Architect target architecture
TIME (Tolerate / Invest / Migrate / Eliminate) A four-way portfolio classification framework for applications, popularised by Gartner. Each application is tagged with one disposition — Tolerate (keep as-is), Invest (fund improvements), Migrate (replace or rehost), or Eliminate (decommission). In Turbo EA it's commonly added as a single_select field on the Application card type and used as the colour axis of the Portfolio Report
Application Portfolio Rationalisation The most common first EA initiative on Turbo EA: inventory the applications in scope, classify each by business value and technical fitness, and assign a TIME disposition driving consolidate / replace / retire decisions
Crawl-Walk-Run The phased rollout pattern recommended in the EA Beginner's Guide. Crawl = narrow scope, Applications only, five fields per card. Walk = add capability mapping and a first portfolio analysis. Run = expand to processes, interfaces, data, and the advanced modules