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Emergence

the process of the coming into existence or prominence of new facts or new knowledge of a fact, or knowledge of a fact becoming visible unexpectedly.

Empiricism

process control type, in which only the past is accepted as inevitable and decisions are based on observation, experience, and experimentation. Empiricism has three pillars: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

Engineering standards

a shared set of development and technology standards that a Development Team applies to create releasable software Increments.

Elicitation

Iterative derivation and extraction of information from stakeholders or other sources.

End user

A stakeholder who directly interacts with the solution.

Enterprise:

A system of one or more organizations and the solutions they use to pursue a shared set of common goals.

Enterprise architecture

A description of an enterprise's business processes, information technology, people, operations, information, and projects and the relationships between them.

Enterprise readiness assessment

An assessment that describes the enterprise is prepared to accept the change associated with a solution and can use it effectively.

Entity-relationship diagram

A graphical representation of the entities relevant to a chosen problem domain and the relationships between them.

Estimate

A quantitative assessment of a planned outcome, resource requirements, and schedule where uncertainties and unknowns are systematically factored into the evaluation.

Evaluation

The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives. See also indicator, metric, monitoring.

Event (business analysis)

An occurrence or incident to which an organizational unit, system, or process must respond.

Evolutionary prototype

A prototype that is continuously modified and updated in response to feedback from stakeholders.

Experiment

Elicitation was controlled to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

External interface

An interaction that is outside the proposed solution. It can be another hardware, software, or human interaction with which the proposed solution will interact.