Artifact:  Glossary

Templates, Case-Study, Report..

The Word template can be bought through a template package. Case studies and reports are freely available in the table below.

Purpose

There is one Glossary for the system that provides a consistent set of definitions to help avoid misunderstandings. Project members initially use the Glossary to understand the terms that are specific to the project. This document is also important to people performing these roles:

• Developers, who make use of the terms in the Glossary when designing and implementing classes, database tables, user-interfaces, and so forth
• Analysts, who use the Glossary to capture project-specific terms so they can clearly define business rules, and to ensure that requirement specifications make correct and consistent use of those terms
• Stakeholders, who use the Glossary to construct training material and documentation using recognized terminology

Timing

The Glossary is primarily developed during the inception and elaboration phases, because it's important to agree on a common terminology early in the project.

Responsibility

The Analyst role is responsible for the integrity of the Glossary, ensuring that:

• it is produced in a timely manner
• it is continuously kept consistent with the results of development

Tailoring

In some projects where business modeling and domain modeling are not performed, the Glossary is the primary artifact used to capture information about the project's business domain.