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Question 1

behavioural business rule

Answer 1

A business rule that places an obligation (or prohibition) on conduct, action, practice, or procedure; a business rule whose purpose is to shape (govern) day-to-day business activity. Also known as operative rule

Question 2

benchmarking

Answer 2

A comparison of a decision, process, service, or system’s cost, time, quality, or other metrics to those of leading peers to identify opportunities for improvement

Question 3

body of knowledge

Answer 3

The aggregated knowledge and generally accepted practices on a topic

Question 4

BPM

Answer 4

See business process management

Question 5

brainstorming

Answer 5

A team activity that seeks to produce a broad or diverse set of options through the rapid and uncritical generation of ideas

Question 6

business (business analysis)

Answer 6

See enterprise

Question 7

business (business world)

Answer 7

An economic system where any commercial, industrial, or professional activity is performed for profit

Question 8

business analysis

Answer 8

The practice of enabling change in the context of an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders

Question 9

business analysis information

Answer 9

Any kind of information at any level of detail that is
used as an input to business analysis work, or as an output of business analysis work

Question 10

business analysis package

Answer 10

A document, presentation, or other collection of text, matrices, diagrams and models, representing business analysis information

Question 11

business analyst

Answer 11

Any person who performs business analysis, no matter their job title or organizational role. For more information, see Who is a Business Analyst? (p. 2)

Question 12

business analysis approach

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The set of processes, rules, guidelines, heuristics, and
activities that are used to perform business analysis in a specific context

Question 13

business analysis communication plan

Answer 13

A description of the types of communication the business analyst will perform during business analysis, the recipients of those communications, and the form and frequency of those communications.

Question 14

business analysis effort

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The scope of activities a business analyst is engaged in during the life cycle of an initiative

Question 15

business analysis plan

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A description of the planned activities the business analyst will execute in order to perform the business analysis work involved in a specific initiative. See also requirements management plan

Question 16

business architecture

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The design, structure, and behaviour of the current and future states of an enterprise to provide a common understanding of the organization. It is used to align the enterprise’s strategic objectives and
tactical demands

Question 17

business case

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A justification for a course of action based on the benefits to be realized by using the proposed solution, as compared to the cost, effort, and other considerations to acquire and live with that solution

Question 18

business domain

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See domain

Question 19

business decision

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A decision that can be made based on strategy, executive judgment, consensus, and business rules, and that is generally made in response to events or at defined points in a business process

Question 20

business goal

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A state or condition that an organization is seeking to establish and maintain, usually expressed qualitatively rather than quantitatively

Question 21

business need

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A problem or opportunity of strategic or tactical importance to be addressed

Question 22

business objective

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An objective, measurable result to indicate that a business goal has been achieved

Question 23

business policy

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A non-practicable directive that controls and influences the actions of an enterprise

Question 24

business problem

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An issue of strategic or tactical importance preventing an enterprise or organization from achieving its goals

Question 25

business process

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An end-to-end set of activities which collectively responds to an event, and transforms information, materials, and other resources into outputs that deliver value directly to the customers of the process. It may be internal to an organization, or it may span several organizations

Question 26

business process management (BPM)

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A management discipline that determines how manual and automated processes are created, modified, cancelled, and governed

Question 27

business process re-engineering

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Rethinking and redesigning business processes
to generate improvements in performance measures

Question 28

business requirement

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A representation of goals, objectives and outcomes that describe why a change has been initiated and how success will be assessed

Question 29

business rule

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A specific, practicable, testable directive that is under the control of the business and that serves as a criterion for guiding behaviour, shaping judgments, or making decisions