Semiotic Endeavor — Terms

Terms defining the organizational levels and concepts of the semiotic-endeavor specification.

Organizational levels

• Endeavor — organized, sustained, intentional effort without guaranteed outcome
• Project — bounded effort ending when an internally controlled condition is met
• Operation — bounded effort ending when an external condition is met
• Repository — the structured, versioned artifact an endeavor produces

How work is done

• Method — the system of conventions governing how an endeavor conducts itself
• Practice — the actual doing of work according to method