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1. An assessment that describes whether stakeholders are prepared to accept the change associated with a solution and are able to use it effectively.
Temporal Event
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Organization
Horizontal Prototype
2. A specific actionable testable directive that is under the control of the business and supports a business policy.
Enterprise Architecture
User
Business Process
Business Rule(s)
3. A requirements package that describes business requirements and stakeholder requirements (it documents requirements of interest to the business rather than documenting business requirements).
Domain Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Business Need(s)
Project
Business Requirements Document
4. A function of an organization that enables it to achieve a business goal or objective.
Capability
Business Policy
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Verification
5. 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
Business Requirement
Interface
Technical Constraint(s)
6. A team activity that seeks to produce a broad or diverse set of options through the rapid and uncritical generation of ideas.
Defect
Non-functional Requirement(s)
Stakeholder
Brainstorming
7. 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
Scope
Business Need(s)
Stakeholder Requirement
State Diagram
8. A stakeholder with specific expertise in an aspect of the problem domain or potential solution alternatives or components.
Brainstorming
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Requirements Management Tool
Regulator
9. A collection of interrelated elements that interact to achieve an objective. Elements can include hardware software and people.
Commercial-off-the-Shelf Software (COTS)
Organizational Process Asset
Scenario
System
10. 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.
Black Box Tests
Requirement(s) Attribute
Requirements Package
Force Field Analysis
11. The area covered by a particular activity or topic of interest.
Peer Review
Requirements Risk Mitigation Strategy
Scope
Request For Information (RFI)
12. 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
External Interfaces
Non-functional Requirement(s)
Requirements Workshop
13. An uncertain event or condition that if it occurs will affect the goals or objectives of a proposed change.
Event
Product
Metric
Risk
14. A means to elicit requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment.
Risk
Observation
Requirements Management
Project Scope
15. The number of occurrences of one entity in a data model that are linked to a second entity. Is shown on a data model with a special notation number (e.g. 1) or letter (e.g. M for many).
Root Cause Analysis
Attribute
Constraint
Cardinality
16. 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.
Solution Scope
Inspection
Association
Operational Support
17. A visual model or representation of the sequential flow and control logic of a set of related activities or actions.
User Acceptance Test
Risk
Dialog Map
Process Model
18. The set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure policies and operations of an organization and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
Span of Control
Business Analysis
Indicator
Regulator
19. The work to identify the stakeholders who may be impacted by a proposed initiative and assess their interests and likely participation.
Business Analyst
Business Policy
Code
Stakeholder Analysis
20. Limitations placed on the solution design by the organization that needs the solution. Describe limitations on available solutions or an aspect of the current state that cannot be changed by the deployment of the new solution. See also technical cons
Checklist
Product
Business Constraint(s)
Context Diagram
21. The set of processes templates and activities that will be used to perform business analysis in a specific context.
Business Analysis Approach
Process Model
Customer
Knowledge Area
22. The quality attributes design and implementation constraints and external interfaces that the product must have.
Non-functional Requirement(s)
Dialog Map
End User
Interoperability
23. A shared boundary between any two persons and/or systems through which information is communicated.
Brainstorming
Optionality
Interface
Service
24. A document or collection of notes or diagrams used by the business analyst during the requirements development process.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Project
Business Analyst
Work Product
25. A stakeholder who uses products or services delivered by an organization.
Customer
Request For Proposal (RFP)
Verification
State Diagram
26. A partial or preliminary version of the system.
Business Need(s)
Quality
Requirements Signoff
Prototype
27. A system trigger that is initiated by humans.
Service
Business Event
Black Box Tests
Business Analysis Approach
28. A unit of work performed as part of an initiative or process.
Business Requirements Document
Request For Proposal (RFP)
Activity
Customer
29. 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.
Plan-driven Methodology
Requirements Management
Span of Control
Commercial-off-the-Shelf Software (COTS)
30. 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.
Walkthrough
Model(s)
Focus Group
Structural Rule
31. Influencing factors that are believed to be true but have not been confirmed to be accurate.
Risk
Competitive Analysis
Requirement(s) Defect
Assumption
32. Test cases that users employ to judge whether the delivered system is acceptable. Each acceptance test describes a set of system inputs and expected results.
Opportunity Analysis
User Acceptance Test
End User
Stakeholder List
33. A type of data model that depicts information groups as classes.
Class Model
Initiative
System
Activity Diagram
34. The problem area undergoing analysis.
Regulator
Domain
Sponsor
External Interfaces
35. 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
Model(s)
Return on Investment
Requirements Iteration
Problem Statement
36. An analysis of requirements-related risks that ranks risks and identifies actions to avoid or minimize those risks.
Impact Analysis
Temporal Event
Requirements Risk Mitigation Strategy
Analyst
37. The features and functions that characterize a product service or result.
Product Scope
Service
End User
Product
38. A small group of stakeholders who will make decisions regarding the disposition and treatment of changing requirements.
Implementation Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
Technical Constraint(s)
Change Control Board (CCB)
39. A prototype developed to explore or verify requirements.
Exploratory Prototype
Focus Group
Elicitation
Quality Attributes
40. 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.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Traceability
Requirements Workshop
Change-driven Methodology
41. 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
Transition Requirement(s)
Metric
Business Architecture
Developer
42. A description of the requirements management process.
Requirements Management Plan
Organization Modeling
Requirement(s) Defect
Evolutionary Prototype
43. An analysis model that provides a graphical alternative to decision tables by illustrating conditions and actions in sequence.
Metric
Work Product
Decision Tree
Horizontal Prototype
44. A stakeholder person device or system that directly or indirectly accesses a system.
User
Analyst
Metric
Span of Control
45. A set of requirements grouped together in a document or presentation for communication to stakeholders.
Interface
Initiative
Requirements Package
Inspection
46. 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.
Feasibility Study
Project Charter
Stakeholder List
Vision Statement (product vision statement)
47. Roles and Responsibility DesignationA listing of the stakeholders affected by a business need or proposed solution and a description of their participation in a project or other initiative.
Stated Requirements
Cost Benefit Analysis
Quality Attributes
Stakeholder List
48. A diagramming technique used in root cause analysis to identify underlying causes of an observed problem and the relationships that exist between those causes.
Risk
Non-functional Requirement(s)
Observation
Fishbone Diagram
49. A stakeholder with legal or governance authority over the solution or the process used to develop it.
Requirements Traceability
Included Use Cases
Regulator
Defect
50. Requirements that have been demonstrated to deliver business value and to support the business goals and objectives.
Requirements Trace Matrix
Validated Requirements
Iteration
Non-functional Requirement(s)