Glossary Flashcards
Acceptance criteria
Criteria associated with requirements, products, or the
delivery cycle that must be met in order to achieve stakeholder acceptance.
Actor (business analysis)
A human, device, or system that plays some specified
role in interacting with a solution.
Adaptive approach
An approach where the solution evolves based on a cycle of learning and discovery, with feedback loops which encourage making decisions as late as possible.
Architecture
The design, structure, and behaviour of the current and future states of a structure in terms of its components, and the interaction between those components.
See also business architecture, enterprise architecture,
and requirements architecture.
Artifact (business analysis)
Any solution-relevant object that is created as part of
business analysis efforts.
Assumption
An influencing factor that is believed to be true but has not been confirmed to be accurate, or that could be true now but may not be in the future.
Behavioural business rule
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.
Benchmarking
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.
Body of knowledge
The aggregated knowledge and generally accepted practices on a topic.
Brainstorming
A team activity that seeks to produce a broad or diverse set of options through the rapid and uncritical generation of ideas.
Business (business world)
An economic system where any commercial, industrial,
or professional activity is performed for profit.
Business analysis
The practice of enabling change in the context of an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
Business analysis information
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.
Business analysis package
A document, presentation, or other collection of text, matrices, diagrams and models, representing business analysis information.
Business analyst
Any person who performs business analysis, no matter their job title or organizational role.
Business analysis approach
The set of processes, rules, guidelines, heuristics, and activities that are used to perform business analysis in a specific context.
Business analysis communication plan
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.
Business analysis effort
The scope of activities a business analyst is engaged in during the life cycle of an initiative
Business analysis plan
A description of the planned activities the business analyst will execute in order to perform the business analysis work involved in a specific initiative.
Business architecture
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.
Business case
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.
Business decision
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.
Business goal
A state or condition that an organization is seeking to establish and maintain, usually expressed qualitatively rather than quantitatively.
Business need
A problem or opportunity of strategic or tactical importance to be addressed.