It is a statement written down in order to achieve a state of being at a given point in time. Unfortunately, only 3% of Americans have written goals. Those that have them are typically the most successful people.
All the games before Mario Golf were developed by Nintendo R&D2. Mario Golf and all subsequent games in the Mario Golf series have been developed by Camelot Software Planning.
For example, a debug menu in Mario Kart 64 can be used to instantly award all gold trophies or to play the game in a 2-player vertical split-screen mode which is not normally available.