| Work Product Descriptor (Artifact): Glossary |
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| This artifact defines important terms used by the project. These terms are the basis for effective collaboration with the stakeholders and other team members. |
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Purpose
| The goal is for the Glossary to provide a common vocabulary agreed upon by all Stakeholders. It can help people from
different functional groups reach a mutual understanding of the system. The goal is not to record all possible terms, but
only those that are unclear, ambiguous, or require elaboration. |
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Main Description
The Glossary helps you avoid miscommunication by providing two essential resources:
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A central location to look for terms and abbreviations that are new to development team members
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Definitions of terms that are used in specific ways within the domain
Definitions for the Glossary terms come from several sources, such as requirements documents, specifications, and
discussions with Stakeholders and domain experts.
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Properties
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Key Considerations
In some projects that do not involve business or domain modeling, the Glossary is the primary artifact for capturing
information about the project's business domain.
Although listed as an output from, and an input to tasks associated with the requirements discipline, this artifact can
be updated at any time, by any role, as new terms are identified.
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Tailoring
| Impact of not having | Misunderstandings about the meanings of data items account for many failed projects. Some of them become obvious only in
the late stages of system testing and can b extremely expensive to correct. |
| Representation Options |
This is a simple alphabetized listing of domain terms and their definitions. It can be captured in a spreadsheet,
document, or published on a Wiki site to simplify access and maintenance.
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