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| authors="Jerome Boyer" changeDate="2008-09-05T10:07:18.843-0700" version="1.0.0"> |
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">One of the positive feedbacks&nbsp;received from
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| the business and IT team&nbsp;is the&nbsp;business term glossary document. Some organization has already defined this
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| kind of glossary, and even it is possible to use some industry standard. But standard are always adapted by the
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| organization so it is important to work on such&nbsp;glossary during the early phase of the project.</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The following template can be used for logging
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| the business vocabulary. The acronyms are not mandatory. The ownership column describes when a term is under the
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| responsibility of&nbsp;a team.</span>
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| </p>
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| style="COLOR: #005da0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE">Term</span></i></b></font>
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| size="3">Acronym</font></span></i></b>
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| style="COLOR: #005da0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE">Definition</span></i></b></font>
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| style="COLOR: #005da0; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE">Owner</span></i></b></font>
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| </div></mainDescription> |
| <purpose>Get agreement on "standard" or internal definition of terms.</purpose> |
| <impactOfNotHaving>This will be more difficult to develop a common BOM later on. And it may lead to the&nbsp;misunderstanding of some business
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| rules and policies.</impactOfNotHaving> |
| <reasonsForNotNeeding>The company is using an industry standard for the business terms. In this last case the standard should be provided to the
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| rule team.</reasonsForNotNeeding> |
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