Useful wiki on all things Business and IT for the CIO: https://cio-wiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Initiative vs Epic vs Story vs Tasks vs Acceptance Criteria

Initiative (1- 3 months)

For <customers>
Who <do something>
The <solution>
Is a <something - the how>
That <provides this value>
Unlike <competitor / current solution / non-existing solution>
Our Solution <does something better - the why>

Epic (1 - 5 weeks)

As a <person>
I want <goal>
So that <reason>

Story ( 1 - 8 days)

As a <person>
I want <goal>
So that <reason>

Tasks (1 - 8 hours)

N/A


Acceptance Criteria 

Given <pre condition>
When <trigger>
Then <outcome>

UML Diagram

We should all use this to draw UML diagrams: https://www.planttext.com/

Lean

http://less.works/less/principles/lean-thinking.html#LeanThinking

Agile

A great elearning course on Agile: http://scrumtrainingseries.com/

Haiku

I try and I try

But no matter what I do

I can’t write Haiku

 

Failure Demand

What is 'failure demand'? Demand caused by a failure to do something or do something right for the customer. This is different from 'value demand' which equates service with cost. More info available here: http://www.systemsthinking.co.uk/6-12.asp

BIZBOK

You know the BABOK, but do you know about the BIZBOK?

http://www.businessarchitectureguild.org/About

Business Architecture Definitions

Take your pick from this link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickmalik/archive/2012/09/11/many-flawed-definitions-of-business-architecture.aspx

Although the following looks rather good:

Doug McDavid from November 2007 in "The Business Architect - An Emerging Role" defines Business Architecture as:


"Business Architecture is the art and science of delivering coherent, dynamic and complete business designs to drive successful business transformation. It is an architectural view of business that organizes:
- A rigorous description of current and future states of the business as well as the intent and realization of business operations and initiatives;
- The definition of initiatives to measure and improve business performance and realize strategic business intent; and
- The context for IT transition planning and roadmap development."