Acknowledgments

As is consistent with all DAMA International Foundation products, this is a collaborative work of many professional contributors, who volunteered their time, expertise, and knowledge to this document. I was merely the wrangler, wrestling the contents into a workable format, and then managing the incoming flows of contributions and commentary, a human integration engine managing data from start to finish.

The following individuals volunteered to review the dictionary, and have our thanks:

These individuals not only signed up to review, but added terms and/or quite useful comments.

I would like to specially mention Gordon Everest, who contributed not only over a hundred terms and definitions before the review process, but also painstakingly reviewed each and every item within the review website. Over 200 comments from the review period were from him alone.

I would like to thank Michael Brackett for his assistance and support in protocols for publishing. His example during the DAMA-DMBOK editing process and as a major contributor of almost three hundred terms and definitions, and over 400 comments, are greatly appreciated.

I also wish to thank Eva Smith for her extraordinary transformation of a spreadsheet into a multi-page review site on Google Docs in short order. Having that website up with all terms, and having the ability to comment on and suggest new terms was crucial to the success of the review process.

Finally, I personally wish to thank Deborah Henderson, DAMA International Foundation President, for her trust and encouragement (and over 100 comments). I am honored to have been assigned this project. I learned quite a great deal, which is always my goal, and I hope I have added some improvement to this profession.

Susan Earley

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Chicago, IL

March 2011