VDM

VDM is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:

• VDM Publishing, a publishing group specializing in publishing German, French and English theses and dissertations.
• Vienna Development Method, a formal software development method
  • VDM specification language, a specification language upon which the Vienna Development Method is based
• Value driven maintenance, Industrial maintenance management methodology.
• Virtual Desktop Manager
• Virtual DOS machine
• Virtual magnetic Dipole Moment
• Vulnerability Discovery Model

Minister

V. D. M. or V.D.M. is a religious initialism variously derived from the similar Latin expressions verbi dei minister or verbum dei minister or verbi divini minister or even verbi divini magister, typically appended as a name suffix to a person's full name to denote his status (sometimes self-determined) as a "minister of the divine word". The typically informal designation emphasizes that the holder has accepted responsibility toward the Bible and preaching the Bible. The appellation may be used:

• practically, by a person who acts as a minister or a lay minister despite not having an actual university degree
• situationally, to momentarily emphasize that a minister holding a Doctor of Divinity or Doctor of Theology degree (for example), is or was not distracted by a wish for prominence or by merely esoteric concerns
• conscientiously, as an alternative for those who sincerely believe terms such as "Reverend" are unwise or immodest

Articles regarding this usage may not be in English:

• Verbi Dei Minister, a Watch Tower Society accreditation program beginning about 1913; early predecessor to Jehovah's Witnesses Theocratic Ministry School.
• Verbi divini minister in Dutch
• Verbi divini minister in Slovenian