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1. Assesses the effects that a proposed change will have on a stakeholder or stakeholder group project or system.
Impact Analysis
Implementation Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Business Constraint(s)
Organization
2. 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
Solution Scope
Timebox
Design Constraints
Stakeholder Requirement
3. A requirement articulated by a stakeholder that has not been analyzed verified or validated. Frequently reflect the desires of a stakeholder rather than the actual need.
Objective
Stated Requirements
Organizational Unit
Interface
4. 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.
Scope Model
Cost Benefit Analysis
Brainstorming
Organizational Process Asset
5. A stakeholder who authorizes or legitimizes the product development effort by contracting for or paying for the project.
User
Objective
Sponsor
Iteration
6. A document or collection of notes or diagrams used by the business analyst during the requirements development process.
Validation
Activity Diagram
Work Product
Stakeholder Analysis
7. 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.
Indicator
Requirements Management Tool
Incremental Delivery
Business Analysis Plan
8. 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.
Feasibility Study
Requirements Management Plan
Entity-Relationship Diagram
Evolutionary Prototype
9. Describes any limitations imposed on the solution that do not support the business or stakeholder needs.
User Requirements Document
Validated Requirements
Work Product
Constraint
10. A requirements document written for a user audience describing user requirements and the impact of the anticipated changes on the users.
User Requirements Document
Repository
Stakeholder Analysis
Monitoring
11. A quantifiable level of an indicator that an organization wants to accomplish at a specific point in time.
Vertical Prototype
Sponsor
Metric
Solution
12. 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).
User
User Story
Operational Support
Project
13. A classification of requirements that describe capabilities that the solution must have in order to facilitate transition from the current state of the enterprise to the desired future state but that will not be needed once that transition is complet
Change Control Board (CCB)
Interview
User Requirements Document
Transition Requirement(s)
14. The work done to ensure that the stated requirements support and are aligned with the goals and objectives of the business.
Requirements Validation
Secondary Actor
Opportunity Analysis
Relationship Map
15. A real or virtual facility where all information on a specific topic is stored and is available for retrieval.
Opportunity Analysis
Checklist
Return on Investment
Repository
16. 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.
Iteration
Vertical Prototype
Request For Quote (RFQ)
End User
17. The process of determining the relative importance of a set of items in order to determine the order in which they will be addressed.
Request For Quote (RFQ)
Prioritization
Problem Statement
Peer Review
18. A type of diagram defined by UML that captures all actors and use cases involved with a system or product.
Use Case Diagram
Business Analysis Plan
Focus Group
Prioritization
19. Formal approval of a set of requirements by a sponsor or other decision maker.
Activity
Enterprise Architecture
Requirements Signoff
Scope Model
20. A team activity that seeks to produce a broad or diverse set of options through the rapid and uncritical generation of ideas.
Prototype
Cost Benefit Analysis
Brainstorming
Requirements Model
21. All materials used by groups within an organization to define tailor implement and maintain their processes.
Peer Review
Use Case
Organizational Process Asset
Process Map
22. Any effort undertaken with a defined goal or objective.
Implementation Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Product
Initiative
Timebox
23. The business benefits that will result from meeting the business need and the end state desired by stakeholders.
Checklist
Stakeholder Requirement
Requirements Traceability
Desired Outcome
24. The process of checking a product to ensure that it satisfies its intended use and conforms to its requirements. Ensures that you built the correct solution.
Validation
Cost Benefit Analysis
Class Model
Business Analysis Approach
25. Metadata related to a requirement used to assist with requirements development and management.
Walkthrough
Functional Requirement(s)
Requirements Verification
Requirement(s) Attribute
26. A comparison of the current state and desired future state of an organization in order to identify differences that need to be addressed.
User
Focus Group
Gap Analysis
Monitoring
27. An analysis model in table format that defines the events (i.e. the input stimuli that trigger the system to carry out some function) and their responses.
Event Response Table
Impact Analysis
Tester
Requirement(s) Defect
28. The number of employees a manger is directly (or indirectly) responsible for.
Span of Control
Business Case
Class
Enterprise Architecture
29. Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats. It is a model used to understand influencing factors and how they may affect an initiative.
Swimlane
Requirements Package
SWOT Analysis
Business Analyst
30. 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
Indicator
Product
Request For Proposal (RFP)
Feature
31. The ability to identify and document the lineage of each requirement including its derivation (backward traceability) its allocation (forward traceability) and its relationship to other requirements.
Enterprise Architecture
Operational Support
Requirements Risk Mitigation Strategy
Requirements Traceability
32. Any recognized association of people in the context of an organization or enterprise.
Structured Walkthrough
Initiative
Project Scope
Organizational Unit
33. The stakeholder assigned by the performing organization to manage the work required to achieve the project objectives.
Incremental Delivery
Feature
Project Manager
Optionality
34. Are responsible for the construction of software applications. Areas of expertise include development languages development practices and application components.
Developer
Swimlane
Event
Prototype
35. The process of apportioning requirements to subsystems and components (i.e. people hardware and software).
Requirements Allocation
Organizational Process Asset
Software/Systems Requirements Specification
Metric
36. A fixed period of time to accomplish a desired outcome.
Design Constraints
End User
Quality
Timebox
37. A defined association between concepts classes or entities. Usually named and include the cardinality of the association.
Supplier
Relationship
Incremental Delivery
Business Architecture
38. A specific actionable testable directive that is under the control of the business and supports a business policy.
Data Dictionary
Included Use Cases
Supplier
Business Rule(s)
39. A means to elicit requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment.
Model(s)
Observation
Business Event
User
40. A graphical representation of the entities relevant to a chosen problem domain the relationships between them and their attributes.
Risk
Methodology
Entity-Relationship Diagram
Business Analyst
41. A type of data model that depicts information groups as classes.
Validated Requirements
Quality Assurance
Temporal Event
Class Model
42. An organized peer review of a deliverable with the objective of finding errors and omissions. It is considered a form of quality assurance.
Project
Capability
Structured Walkthrough
Domain
43. An analysis model that provides a graphical alternative to decision tables by illustrating conditions and actions in sequence.
Feasibility Study
Requirements Iteration
Request For Quote (RFQ)
Decision Tree
44. A business model that shows a business process in terms of the steps and input and output flows across multiple functions organizations or job roles.
Process Map
Initiative
Relationship Map
Actor(s)
45. A stakeholder with legal or governance authority over the solution or the process used to develop it.
Customer
Software/Systems Requirements Specification
Benchmarking
Regulator
46. A description of the requirements management process.
Use Case Diagram
Metadata
State Diagram
Requirements Management Plan
47. The process of checking that a deliverable produced at a given stage of development satisfies the conditions or specifications of the previous stage. Ensures that you built the solution correctly.
Verification
Metadata
Relationship Map
Supplier
48. 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.
Requirements Trace Matrix
Business Event
Model(s)
Activity Diagram
49. A person with specific expertise in an area or domain under investigation.
Use Case Diagram
Tester
Decision Tables
Domain Subject Matter Expert (SME)
50. Identifies a specific numerical measurement that indicates progress toward achieving an impact output activity or input. See also metric.
Work Product
Prototype
Indicator
Stated Requirements