Acceptance Criteria - qualified answersA set of conditions that is required before
deliverables are accepted. Also used to evaluate product requirements
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Active Listening - qualified answersThe act of listening completely with all senses so as
to pick up all of the information that is being communicated. Entails paraphrasing or
reciting back what is heard to ensure accurate understanding of what is being stated.
Activity - qualified answersA distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the
course of a project.
Activity Diagram - qualified answersAn activity diagram is a UML diagram that is used to
model a process. It models the actions (or behaviors) performed by the components of
a business process or IT system, the order in which the actions take place, and the
conditions that coordinate the actions in a specific order. Activity diagrams use swim
lanes to group actions together. Actions can be grouped by the actor performing the
action or by the distinct business process or system that is performing the action.
Adaptive Life Cycle - qualified answersA project life cycle, also known as change-driven
or agile methods, that is intended to facilitate change and requires a high degree of
ongoing stakeholder involvement. Also iterative and incremental, but differ in that
iterations are very rapid (usually with duration of 2 to 4 weeks) and are fixed in time and
cost.
Affinity Diagram - qualified answersA group creativity technique that allows large
numbers of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis.
Analysis Domain - qualified answersThe domain of business analysis that centers on
requirements management activities, Tasks include the elicitation, analysis,
decomposition, acceptance, approval, specification, and validation of the requirements
for a product or project.
Approved Change Request - qualified answersA change request that has been
processed through the integrated change control process and approved.
Architecture - qualified answersA method to describe an organization by mapping its
essential characteristics, such as people, locations, processes, applications, data, and
technology.
As-Is Process - qualified answersA description of the current state of a process,
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