Business Analysis For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Index

A

• acceptance, of risk, 227
• acceptance criteria, developing, 297–298
• acceptance test driven development (ATDD), 324–325
• accessibility, as a nonfunctional requirement, 96
• account manager, 40
• action items (tasks), 149, 295
• active listening, 52–53
• actors, 105–106, 305, 306, 308
• affinity diagrams, 382–383
• agents, external, as core component, 105–106
• Agile environment
  • business analysis in, 16–21
  • change management in, 83
  • elicitation in, 124–125
  • requirements in, 277–279
  • testing in, 325
  • transition planning in, 352–353
  • work plan in, 238–240, 257–258
• Agile Project Management For Dummies (Layton, Ostermiller, and Kynaston), 258, 320
• agility, as a business driver category, 215
• agreement, getting on scope, 230
• alternate path, in use case description, 309
• Analysis phase, in waterfall approach, 257
• analysis techniques
  • about, 281–282
  • data flow diagrams, 218–223, 282–284
  • decision tables, 299–300
  • developing acceptance criteria, 297–298
  • entity relationship diagram (ERD), 285–289
  • external interaction textual templates, 282, 284–285
  • process decomposition diagrams, 291–294
  • prototyping, 74–75, 158–160, 311–317
  • story maps, 294–297
  • use case models, 305–311
  • user stories, 72–73, 295, 318–320
  • using data mapping for system interfaces, 289–291
  • workflow diagrams, 300–305
• annual maintenance costs, 80
• ANSI flowchart, 301
• application lifecycle management (ALM) tools, 72
• approach to implement, 205, 338
• approvals, in verification and validation test plan, 341
• artifacts, in use case description,