"Within the context of this book, a capability refers to the knowledge, skills, experience, and overall abilities of cross-functional product team members. In this light, each team member must be able to understand, and be able to fulfill their commitments to the team. Therefore, a capability is the proven ability of an individual or group to perform a specific type of work." (Steven Haines, "The Product Manager's Desk Reference", 2008)
"A quality, ability, or feature that has the potential to be used or developed." (Bettina M Davis & Wendy L Combsand, "Demystifying Technical Training: Partnership, Strategy, and Execution", 2009)
"A thing that an organization, person, or system is able to do. Capabilities are typically very coarse-grained and may bring together a combination of people, processes, and technology." (David Lyle & John G Schmidt, "Lean Integration", 2010)
"A Capability is a specific competency that must exist in an organization to execute project management processes and deliver project management services and products. Capabilities are incremental steps leading up to one or more Best Practices." (Project Management Institute, "Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)" 3rd Ed, 2013)
"A specific competency that an organization needs to have in order to implement and sustain OPM." (PMI, "Implementing Organizational Project Management: A Practice Guide", 2014)
"Designates the aptitude of an organization or a system to provide a given product or service; materialized by a series of elements (business, organizational, technical) that contribute to the realization of these products or services to the required level of quality." (Gilbert Raymond & Philippe Desfray, "Modeling Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF", 2014)
"Capability is a function of the affordances offered by an organizing system and the possible interactions they imply." (Robert J Glushko, "The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition" 4th Ed., 2016)
"A combination of working knowledge about a particular process or domain, and the capacity to apply that knowledge through action." (Gregory Lampshire, "The Data and Analytics Playbook", 2016)
"A measurable capacity to use resources that an organization needs to deliver to its strategy and achieve its agreed outcomes. It includes elements of people, process, information, and technology." (Kevin J Sweeney, "Re-Imagining Data Governance", 2018)
"More precisely referred to as organizational capability, is an organization’s capacity to perform a particular task or function." (Robert M Grant, "Contemporary Strategy Analysis" 10th Ed., 2018)
"A Capability is a higher-level solution behavior that typically spans multiple ARTs. Capabilities are sized and split into multiple features to facilitate their implementation in a single PI." (Dean Leffingwell, "SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises" 2nd Ed, 2018)
"The ability to carry out an activity" (ITIL)
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