The following words and terms, when used with this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (1) Agency head--Top-most senior manager with operational accountability for an agency, such as an executive director, commissioner, university president, university chancellor, comptroller, or board president.
2. (2) Component--Elements of project management practices such as project management methodologies, tools, techniques, and methods for integration with other similar or related disciplines that influence information resources project delivery.
3. (3) Department--Department of Information Resources.
4. (4) Information resources--Procedures, equipment, and software that are employed, designed, built, operated, and maintained to collect, record, process, store, retrieve, display, and transmit information, and associated personnel including consultants and contractors.
5. (5) Information resources technologies--Data processing and telecommunications hardware, software, services, supplies, personnel, facility resources, maintenance, and training.
6. (6) Process--Series of steps and strategies used to achieve specific goals and results.
7. (7) Methodology--Set of inter-related processes, tasks, activities, or principles that can be scaled and applied to a specific situation; provides a list of activities, indicates how to accomplish the activities, and identifies who executes the activities and when.
8. (8) Project--A program to provide information resources technologies support to functions within or among elements of a state agency, which should be characterized by well-defined parameters, specific objectives, common benefits, planned activities, a scheduled completion date, and an established budget with a specified source of funding.
9. (9) Project management practices--Documented and repeatable methods that a state agency uses to apply knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to satisfy project activity requirements.
10. (10) Standard--A definition, format, or specification that has been approved by a recognized, formal, national and international standards organization or is accepted as a de facto standard by the industry.

Source Note:The provisions of this §216.1 adopted to be effective November 11, 2007, 32 TexReg 7894.