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1. A stakeholder responsible for assessing the quality of and identifying defects in a software application.






2. A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.






3. A real or virtual facility where all information on a specific topic is stored and is available for retrieval.






4. The number of employees a manger is directly (or indirectly) responsible for.






5. An analysis model that provides a graphical alternative to decision tables by illustrating conditions and actions in sequence.






6. An analysis model that describes a series of actions or tasks that respond to an event. Each is an instance of a use case.






7. A group of related tasks that support a key function of business analysis.






8. An organizational unit organization or collection of organizations that share a set of common goals and collaborate to provide specific products or services to customers.






9. A set of requirements grouped together in a document or presentation for communication to stakeholders.






10. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product service or result.






11. An evaluation of proposed alternatives to determine if they are technically possible within the constraints of the organization and whether they will deliver the desired benefits to the organization.






12. Are responsible for the construction of software applications. Areas of expertise include development languages development practices and application components.






13. The quality attributes design and implementation constraints and external interfaces that the product must have.






14. The business benefits that will result from meeting the business need and the end state desired by stakeholders.






15. An analysis model that specifies complex business rules or logic concisely in an easy-to-read tabular format specifying all of the possible conditions and actions that need to be accounted for in business rules.






16. A stakeholder who helps to keep the solution functioning either by providing support to end users (trainers help desk) or by keeping the solution operational on a day-to-day basis (network and other tech support).






17. An analysis model that shows user interface dialogs arranged as hierarchies.






18. Identifies a specific numerical measurement that indicates progress toward achieving an impact output activity or input. See also metric.






19. Describes any limitations imposed on the solution that do not support the business or stakeholder needs.






20. Any effort undertaken with a defined goal or objective.






21. A state or condition the business must satisfy to reach its vision.






22. A visual model or representation of the sequential flow and control logic of a set of related activities or actions.






23. A group of related information to be stored by the system. Can be people roles places things organizations occurrences in time concepts or documents.






24. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives. See also metric indicator and monitoring.






25. A structured process which captures the key characteristics of an industry to predict the long-term profitability prospects and to determine the practices of the most significant competitors.






26. A graphical method for depicting the forces that support and oppose a change. Involves identifying the forces depicting them on opposite sides of a line (supporting and opposing forces) and then estimating the strength of each set of forces.






27. Any methodology that emphasizes planning and formal documentation of the processes used to accomplish a project and of the results of the project. Emphasize the reduction of risk and control over outcomes over the rapid delivery of a solution.






28. Creating working software in multiple releases so the entire product is delivered in portions over time.






29. An activity within requirements development that identifies sources for requirements and then uses elicitation techniques (e.g. interviews prototypes facilitated workshops documentation studies) to gather requirements from those sources.






30. A type of data model that depicts information groups as classes.






31. An analysis model that illustrates processes that occur along with the flows of data to and from those processes.






32. An analysis model that illustrates product scope by showing the system in its environment with the external entities (people and systems) that give to and receive from the system.






33. A partial or preliminary version of the system.






34. The stakeholder assigned by the performing organization to manage the work required to achieve the project objectives.






35. A stakeholder with legal or governance authority over the solution or the process used to develop it.






36. A process in which a deliverable (or the solution overall) is progressively elaborated upon. Will result in a self-contained "mini-project" in which a set of activities are undertaken resulting in the development of a subset of project deliverables.






37. Assesses the effects that a proposed change will have on a stakeholder or stakeholder group project or system.






38. 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






39. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.






40. A prototype that is continuously modified and updated in response to feedback from users.






41. 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.






42. A document or collection of notes or diagrams used by the business analyst during the requirements development process.






43. An analysis model that describes the tasks that the system will perform for actors and the goals that the system achieves for those actors along the way.






44. Analysis of discrepancies between planned and actual performance to determine the magnitude of those discrepancies and recommend corrective and preventative action as required.






45. All materials used by groups within an organization to define tailor implement and maintain their processes.






46. A formal type of peer review that utilizes a predefined and documented process specific participant roles and the capture of defect and process metrics. See also structured walkthrough.






47. A software tool that stores requirements information in a database captures requirements attributes and associations and facilitates requirements reporting.






48. An analysis model that illustrates the architecture of the system's user interface.






49. The horizontal or vertical section of a process model that show which activities are performed by a particular actor or role.






50. A defined association between concepts classes or entities. Usually named and include the cardinality of the association.







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