Activity

Activity - A named process, function, or task that occurs over time and has recognizable results. Activities use up assigned resources to produce postal products and services. Activities combine to form USPS business processes.

[Category=Postal ]

Source: USPS, 24 August 2009 11:21:11, http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub32/pub32a_g.html

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Activity - In a Project Management context, a sequence of instructions treated as a basic unit of work.

[Category=Data Governance ]

Source: The Data Governance Institute, 16 November 2009 08:44:52, http://www.datagovernance.com/glossary-governance/

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Activity - A set of tasks related either by topic, dependencies, data, common skills, or deliverables. The next level of organization below a phase.

[Category=Data Warehousing ]

Source: Aexis Business Intelligence, 01 November 2010 08:20:12, http://www.aexis.eu/DataWarehouse-Glossary/

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Activity - An all-inclusive term describing a specific set of operations of related tasks to be performed, either serially or in parallel (e.g., research and development, field sampling, analytical operations, equipment fabrication), that, in total, result in a product or service.

[Category=Quality Assurance ]

Source: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, 15 March 2011 07:15:08, http://www.mass.gov/dep/cleanup/laws/glossa01.htm