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1. The stakeholder assigned by the performing organization to manage the work required to achieve the project objectives.
Project Manager
Association
Verification
Stakeholder Requirement
2. Alter the way a business analysis task is performed or describe a specific form the output of a task may take.
Decision Analysis
Business Requirements Document
Technique
Implementation Subject Matter Expert (SME)
3. The subset of nonfunctional requirements that describes properties of the software's operation development and deployment (e.g. performance security usability portability and testability).
Glossary
Business Event
Quality Attributes
Assumption
4. 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.
Actor(s)
Decision Analysis
Use Case Diagram
Dialog Map
5. Any recognized association of people in the context of an organization or enterprise.
Organizational Unit
User Acceptance Test
Activity
Glossary
6. A solution or component of a solution that is the result of a project.
Requirements Verification
Data Dictionary
Product
User Requirements Document
7. Activities performed to ensure that a process will deliver products that meet an appropriate level of quality.
Business Event
Quality Assurance
User
Process Model
8. A software tool that stores requirements information in a database captures requirements attributes and associations and facilitates requirements reporting.
Scenario
Secondary Actor
Optionality
Requirements Management Tool
9. A deficiency in a product or service that reduces its quality or varies from a desired attribute state or functionality.
Organization Modeling
Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
System
Defect
10. A description of the types of communication the business analyst will perform during business analysis the recipients of those communications and the form in which communication should occur.
Requirements Management Plan
Benchmarking
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Evolutionary Prototype
11. A stakeholder who provides products or services to an organization.
Supplier
Change Control Board (CCB)
Temporal Event
Business Process
12. A target or metric that a person or organization seeks to meet in order to progress towards a goal.
Objective
Metadata
Decomposition
Requirements Package
13. An actor who participates in but does not initiate a use case.
Business Constraint(s)
Business Policy
Secondary Actor
Force Field Analysis
14. A brief statement or paragraph that describes the problems in the current state and clarifies what a successful solution will look like.
Problem Statement
SWOT Analysis
Feasibility Study
Methodology
15. An analysis model that shows user interface dialogs arranged as hierarchies.
Dialog Hierarchy
Process Map
Technical Constraint(s)
Developer
16. Something that occurs to which an organizational unit system or process must respond.
Request For Quote (RFQ)
Event
Enterprise Architecture
Stakeholder Requirement
17. A representation and simplification of reality developed to convey information to a specific audience to support analysis communication and understanding.
Validated Requirements
Model(s)
Prototype
System
18. A set of written questions to stakeholders in order to collect responses from a large group in a relatively short period of time.
Requirements Allocation
Event
Change-driven Methodology
Survey
19. Limitations on the design of a solution that derive from the technology used in its implementation.
Technical Constraint(s)
Plan-driven Methodology
Peer Review
Organizational Unit
20. The activities that control requirements development including requirements change control requirements attributes definition and requirements traceability.
Sponsor
Fishbone Diagram
Requirements Management
Requirement
21. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution is implemented compared to expected results. See also metric and indicator.
End User
Business Constraint(s)
Metric
Monitoring
22. A type of diagram defined by UML that captures all actors and use cases involved with a system or product.
Use Case Diagram
Requirements Risk Mitigation Strategy
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Structured Walkthrough
23. Influencing factors that are believed to be true but have not been confirmed to be accurate.
Requirements Management
Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
Assumption
Business Analysis Plan
24. A structured examination of an identified problem to understand the underlying causes.
Project
Root Cause Analysis
Sequence Diagram
Product Scope
25. An uncertain event or condition that if it occurs will affect the goals or objectives of a proposed change.
Baseline
Cardinality
Risk
Decision Tables
26. A quantifiable level of an indicator that an organization wants to accomplish at a specific point in time.
Decision Analysis
Analyst
Transition Requirement(s)
Metric
27. A system of programming statements symbols and rules used to represent instructions to a computer.
Code
Swimlane
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Focus Group
28. A comparison of the current state and desired future state of an organization in order to identify differences that need to be addressed.
Solution Requirement
Stakeholder List
Incremental Delivery
Gap Analysis
29. 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
Exploratory Prototype
Capability
Stakeholder List
30. All materials used by groups within an organization to define tailor implement and maintain their processes.
Data Model
Domain Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Requirements Risk Mitigation Strategy
Organizational Process Asset
31. 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.
Decision Tree
Focus Group
Business Domain Model
Elicitation
32. 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).
Evolutionary Prototype
Interface
Operational Support
Project
33. The work done to evaluate requirements to ensure they are defined correctly and are at an acceptable level of quality. It ensures the requirements are sufficiently defined and structured so that the solution development team can use them in the desig
Model(s)
Cardinality
Requirements Verification
Quality
34. A technique that subdivides a problem into its component parts in order to facilitate analysis and understanding of those components.
Solution Requirement
Decomposition
Scope
Class Model
35. 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.
Product
Interface
Feasibility Study
Scope Model
36. A condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a solution or solution component to satisfy a contract standard specification or other formally imposed documents.
Knowledge Area
Business Analyst
Requirement
Incremental Delivery
37. 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.
Request For Proposal (RFP)
Lessons Learned Process
Code
Iteration
38. Meets a business need by resolving a problem or allowing an organization to take advantage of an opportunity.
Stakeholder Analysis
Requirements Trace Matrix
Stakeholder Requirement
Solution
39. A fixed period of time to accomplish a desired outcome.
Problem Statement
Customer
Timebox
Objective
40. The set of capabilities a solution must deliver in order to meet the business need.
Solution Scope
Code
Decision Tree
Requirements Trace Matrix
41. A set of user stories requirements or features that have been identified as candidates for potential implementation prioritized and estimated.
Use Case Diagram
Business Analysis Approach
Product Backlog
Methodology
42. A small group of stakeholders who will make decisions regarding the disposition and treatment of changing requirements.
Event Response Table
Metadata
Change Control Board (CCB)
Organizational Unit
43. A generic name for a role with the responsibilities of developing and managing requirements. Other names include business analyst business integrator requirements analyst requirements engineer and systems analyst.
State Diagram
Analyst
Association
Business Constraint(s)
44. 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.
Defect
Class Model
SWOT Analysis
Project Charter
45. A requirements document issued to solicit vendor input on a proposed process or product. Is used when the issuing organization seeks to compare different alternatives or is uncertain regarding the available options
Timebox
Request For Information (RFI)
Plan-driven Methodology
Quality Assurance
46. A real or virtual facility where all information on a specific topic is stored and is available for retrieval.
Scope Model
Metric
Root Cause Analysis
Repository
47. A group or person who has interests that may be affected by an initiative or influence over it.
Code
Supplier
Stakeholder
Return on Investment
48. An analysis model that describes a series of actions or tasks that respond to an event. Each is an instance of a use case.
Scenario
Return on Investment
Inspection
Problem Statement
49. A system trigger that is initiated by humans.
Business Event
Organizational Process Asset
Stakeholder List
Regulator
50. Identifies a specific numerical measurement that indicates progress toward achieving an impact output activity or input. See also metric.
Indicator
Business Requirement
Business Analysis Plan
Inspection