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1. A conceptual view of all or part of an enterprise focusing on products deliverables and events that are important to the mission of the organization. Is useful to validate the solution scope with the business and technical stakeholders. See also mode
Requirement(s) Attribute
Business Domain Model
Force Field Analysis
User Requirements Document
2. The activities that control requirements development including requirements change control requirements attributes definition and requirements traceability.
Requirements Management
Business Rule(s)
Project Manager
Business Goal
3. A document or collection of notes or diagrams used by the business analyst during the requirements development process.
Work Product
Functional Requirement(s)
Project Charter
Scope Model
4. A person with specific expertise in an area or domain under investigation.
Checklist
User
Domain Subject Matter Expert (SME)
SWOT Analysis
5. A requirements workshop is a structured meeting in which a carefully selected group of stakeholders collaborate to define and or refine requirements under the guidance of a skilled neutral facilitator.
Requirements Workshop
Actor(s)
Requirement(s) Attribute
Prototype
6. A description of an organization's business processes IT software and hardware people operations and projects and the relationships between them.
Technical Constraint(s)
Sponsor
Business Analysis Approach
Enterprise Architecture
7. Defining whether or not a relationship between entities in a data model is mandatory. Is shown on a data model with a special notation.
Optionality
Class
Horizontal Prototype
Requirements Management Plan
8. An iteration that defines requirements for a subset of the solution scope. Would include identifying a part of the overall product scope to focus upon identifying requirements sources for that portion of the product analyzing stakeholders and plannin
Temporal Event
Requirements Iteration
Checklist
Business Need(s)
9. A target or metric that a person or organization seeks to meet in order to progress towards a goal.
Iteration
Data Dictionary
Technical Constraint(s)
Objective
10. Statements of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders. They describe the needs that a given stakeholder has and how that stakeholder will interact with a solution. Serve as a bridge between business requirements and the various
Stakeholder Requirement
Request For Quote (RFQ)
Interface
Deliverable
11. A stakeholder with specific expertise in an aspect of the problem domain or potential solution alternatives or components.
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Use Case Diagram
Exploratory Prototype
Design Constraints
12. A prototype used to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools sometimes just paper and pencil. Usually discarded when the final system has been developed.
Document Analysis
Assumption
Throw-away Prototype
Product Backlog
13. A condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective.
Risk
Requirement
Feasibility Study
Problem Statement
14. A system trigger that is initiated by time.
Included Use Cases
Business Goal
Temporal Event
Technique
15. A set of written questions to stakeholders in order to collect responses from a large group in a relatively short period of time.
Survey
Commercial-off-the-Shelf Software (COTS)
Validation
Opportunity Analysis
16. A structured examination of an identified problem to understand the underlying causes.
Organizational Process Asset
Root Cause Analysis
Checklist
Verified Requirements
17. A state or condition the business must satisfy to reach its vision.
Change Control Board (CCB)
Association
Business Goal
Secondary Actor
18. The process of determining the relative importance of a set of items in order to determine the order in which they will be addressed.
Developer
Prioritization
Focus Group
Analyst
19. The product capabilities or things the product must do for its users.
Competitive Analysis
Functional Requirement(s)
Solution Requirement
Attribute
20. A higher level business rationale that when addressed will permit the organization to increase revenue avoid costs improve service or meet regulatory requirements.
Business Analysis Approach
Data Dictionary
Stated Requirements
Business Requirement
21. A stakeholder who uses products or services delivered by an organization.
Customer
Document Analysis
Requirements Workshop
Requirements Management
22. A cohesive bundle of externally visible functionality that should align with business goals and objectives. Each is a logically related grouping of functional requirements or non-functional requirements described in broad strokes.
Prototype
Feature
Stated Requirements
Secondary Actor
23. A deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables. It organizes and defines the total scope of the project.
User Story
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Business Policy
Actor(s)
24. A partial or preliminary version of the system.
Prototype
Software/Systems Requirements Specification
Requirements Trace Matrix
Product Scope
25. Analysis done to compare and quantify the financial and non-financial costs of making a change or implementing a solution compared to the benefits gained.
Requirements Package
Validated Requirements
Cost Benefit Analysis
User
26. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions preferences and needs guided by a moderator.
Focus Group
Span of Control
Organization Modeling
Business Analyst
27. An analysis model describing the data structures and attributes needed by the system.
Commercial-off-the-Shelf Software (COTS)
Plan-driven Methodology
Data Dictionary
Enterprise Architecture
28. A real or virtual facility where all information on a specific topic is stored and is available for retrieval.
Business Policy
Repository
Feasibility Study
Data Entity
29. An analysis model that illustrates processes that occur along with the flows of data to and from those processes.
Attribute
Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
Developer
End User
30. A model that illustrates the flow of processes and/or complex use cases by showing each activity along with information flows and concurrent activities. Steps can be superimposed onto horizontal swimlanes for the roles that perform the steps.
Evolutionary Prototype
Activity Diagram
Dialog Hierarchy
Constraint
31. An approach to decision-making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Assists in making an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Desired Outcome
Requirement(s) Defect
Constraint
Decision Analysis
32. A requirements document issued when an organization is seeking a formal proposal from vendors. Typically requires that the proposals be submitted following a specific process and using sealed bids which will be evaluated against a formal evaluation m
Requirements Management Tool
Request For Proposal (RFP)
Defect
Benchmarking
33. The problem area undergoing analysis.
Domain
Baseline
Requirement(s) Attribute
Dialog Hierarchy
34. A shared boundary between any two persons and/or systems through which information is communicated.
Interface
Included Use Cases
Data Entity
Implementation Subject Matter Expert (SME)
35. Any unique and verifiable work product or service that a party has agreed to deliver.
Deliverable
Business Analysis Approach
Validation
Requirements Iteration
36. All materials used by groups within an organization to define tailor implement and maintain their processes.
Organizational Process Asset
Organizational Unit
Business Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan
37. A description of the planned activities that the business analyst will execute in order to perform the business analysis work involved in a specific initiative.
Business Analysis Plan
Enterprise Architecture
Use Case
SWOT Analysis
38. Work carried out or on behalf of others.
Project Manager
Service
Survey
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
39. An informal solicitation of proposals from vendors.
Lessons Learned Process
Iteration
Request For Quote (RFQ)
Class Model
40. A requirements package that describes business requirements and stakeholder requirements (it documents requirements of interest to the business rather than documenting business requirements).
Verified Requirements
Vision Statement (product vision statement)
Requirement
Business Requirements Document
41. A comparison of a process or system's cost time quality or other metrics to those of leading peer organizations to identify opportunities for improvement.
Benchmarking
Evaluation
Analyst
Process Model
42. An autonomous unit within an enterprise under the management of a single individual or board with a clearly defined boundary that works towards common goals and objectives. Operate on a continuous basis as opposed to an organizational unit or project
Organization
Repository
Business Analysis Approach
Relationship Map
43. An approach to software engineering where software is comprised of components that are encapsulated groups of data and functions which can inherit behavior and attributes from other components; and whose components communicate via messages with one a
Deliverable
Process Map
User Requirements Document
Object Oriented Modeling
44. A type of data model that depicts information groups as classes.
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Business Goal
Class Model
Monitoring
45. A graphical representation of the entities relevant to a chosen problem domain the relationships between them and their attributes.
Entity-Relationship Diagram
Activity
Requirement(s) Defect
Product Backlog
46. A business model that shows the organizational context in terms of the relationships that exist among the organization external customers and providers.
Quality Assurance
Attribute
Quality Attributes
Relationship Map
47. A model that defines the boundaries of a business domain or solution.
Scope Model
Business Goal
Business Requirements Document
Association
48. An assessment that describes whether stakeholders are prepared to accept the change associated with a solution and are able to use it effectively.
Validated Requirements
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Enterprise
Project
49. A systematic approach to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Temporal Event
Activity
Interview
User Story
50. An actor who participates in but does not initiate a use case.
Quality Assurance
Plan-driven Methodology
Secondary Actor
Requirements Allocation