| Maintainability - | (Software Engineering) the degree to which a program is amenable to change |
| Maintenance - | (Software Engineering) the activities associated with changes to software after it has been delivered to end-users |
| Make-buy decision - | (Software Engineering) determining whether software should be built internally, acquired, contracted or built from reusable components |
| Measurement - | (Software Engineering) collecting quantitative data about the software or the software engineering processMetrics - |
| Milestones - | (Software Engineering) a point in time that is used to indicate progress during a project |
| Modular design - | (Software Engineering) a design approach that stresses modularity |
| Modularity - | (Software Engineering) an attribute of a design that leads to the creation of high quality program components |
| Navigation analysis - | (Software Engineering) a Web engineering action that establishes how a user will navigate between various elements (e.g., content, functions) of a WebApp |
| Object-oriented - | (Software Engineering) an approach to software development that makes use of a classification approach and packages data and processing together |
| Object-oriented analysis (OOA) - | (Software Engineering) a technique for defined classes of objects, their relationships and basic structure |