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