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| End user - Person or group for whom the project's product or service is developed. |
| Enhancement - Change or group of changes to the scope of an existing project that provides additional functionality, features, or capabilities. |
| Enterprise - (1) Company or organization. (2) Subpart of a company or organization. (3) Business of a customer. |
| Enterprise Architecture - defines an enterprise-wide, integrated set of components that incorporates strategic business thinking, information assets, and the technical infrastructure of an enterprise to promote information sharing across agency and organizational boundaries. The Enterprise Architecture is supported by Architecture Governance and the allied architectures of, Business, Information, Technology and Solution Architectures. |
| Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) - An ESB is software architecture for middleware that provides fundamental services for more complex architectures. For example, an ESB incorporates key features to support a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In a general sense, an ESB can be thought of as a mechanism that manages access to applications and services (both modern and legacy versions) to present a single, simple, and consistent interface. |
| Entity - An abstraction for a person, place, object, event, or concept described (or characterized) by common Attributes. For example, “Person” and “Agency” are Entities. |
| Exit Criteria - The conditions that must be satisfied before the process element is considered complete. |
| Executive Summary - A non-technical summary statement designed to provide a quick overview of the full-length report on which it is based. |
| Expected Results - The desired outcome of a scenario defined in a test plan. |
| External Dependency - Dependency that involves a relationship between project and non-project activities. |
