Artifact: Business Glossary
 Business Glossary |
The Business Glossary defines important terms used in the business modeling portion of the project. |
| Worker: | Business-Process Analyst |
| Optionality: | This document is developed only if you need to keep separate the terms necessary to understand during business modeling from the terms used during the following software engineering effort. Otherwise it can be excluded. |
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| More Information: | Checkpoints: Business Glossary |
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| Input to Activities: | Output from Activities: |
Purpose
There is one Business Glossary for the project. This document is important to many developers, especially when they need to understand and use the terms that are specific to the project.
Brief
Outline
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1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
1.2 Scope
1.3 References
1.4 Overview
2. Definitions
2.1 <aTerm>
2.2 <anotherTerm>
2.3 <aGroupofTerms>
2.3.1 <aGroupTerm>
2.3.2 <anotherGroupTerm>
2.3.3 <yetAnotherGroupTerm>
2.3.4 <andAnotherGroupTerm>
Timing
The Business Glossary is primarily developed during the inception phase, because it is important to agree on a common business terminology early in the project.
Responsibility
A Worker: Business-Process Analyst is responsible for the integrity of the Business Glossary, ensuring that:
- The Business Glossary is produced in a timely manner.
- The Business Glossary is kept consistent with and not overlaps the Glossary.
- It continuously is kept consistent with the results of development.
Tailoring
If the context of the business modeling effort is not much different than a
following software engineering effort, the terms defined during business
modeling may instead be included in the Artifact:
Glossary.
