| UAF 1.2 | Description |
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Actual Effect | A real world phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon. |
| Actual Outcome | Something that happens or is produced as the final consequence or product and is related to one of the goals for the business or enterprise. Outcome is a special kind of effect, one that is usually at the end of a chain of effects, i.e. an "end effect". |
| Capability Kind | Enumeration of the possible kinds of Capability. The following are enumeration literals for Capability Kind: Operational, Other, Personnel, Resource, Security, Service, and Strategic. |
| Challenge | An existing or potential difficulty, circumstance, or obstacle which will require effort and determination from an enterprise to overcome in achieving its goals. |
| Challenge Kind | Enumeration of the possible kinds of Challenge. The following are enumeration literals for ChallengeKind: Business, Enterprise, Mission, Other, and Strategic. |
| Compares To | An abstraction relationship relating the effect that is achieved with the originally expected Desired Effect. Providing a means of comparison, between the expectation of the desirer and the actual result. |
| Creates | A dependency relationship denoting that an Actual Strategic Phase brings into existence a Strategic Asset. |
| Driver | A factor which will have a significant impact on the activities, and goals of an enterprise. |
| Driver Kind | Enumeration of the possible kinds of Driver. The following are enumeration literals for DriverKind: Operational, Other, Personnel, Project, Resource, Security, Service, Standard, and Strategic. |
Effect | A kind of phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon that could lead to downstream effects or to one or more desired outcomes. |
Enables | A dependency relationship denoting that an Opportunity provides the means for achieving an Enterprise Goal or Objective. |
Enterprise Mission | Mission captures at a high level what you will do to realize your vision. |
| Enterprise Objective | A statement of an attainable, time-targeted, and measurable target that the enterprise seeks to meet in order to achieve its Goals. |
| Evoked By | A dependency relationship denoting that a Risk is drawn out by an Opportunity. |
Governed By | An abstraction relationship that exists between the ServiceContract and the Service that it governs. |
| Impacted By | A dependency relationship denoting that a Capability is affected by an Opportunity. |
| Maps To Goal | A dependency relationship denoting that some Strategic Information contributes to achieving an Enterprise Goal or Objective. |
| Motivated By | A dependency relationship denoting the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. |
| Opportunity | An existing or potential favorable circumstance or combination of circumstances which can be advantageous for addressing enterprise Challenges. |
| Owns Value | An abstraction relationship denoting that an Actual Organizational Resource owns a Value Item. |
| Phases | An abstraction relationship that exists between a Phaseable Element and an Actual Strategic Phase that it is assigned to. |
| Presented By | A dependency relationship denoting that a Challenge must be overcome for addressing a Driver. |
| Resource Service | A services that a Resource Performer provides to support higher level Services or Operational Activities. Employee provisioning, backup and recovery, storage, self-service help desk are examples of Resource Services. |
| Resource Service Interface | A contract that defines the Resource Methods and Resource Signal receptions that the Resource Services realize. |
| Security Risk | The level of impact on enterprise operations, assets, or individuals resulting from the operation of an information system given the potential impact of a threat and the likelihood of that threat occurring [NIST SP 800-65]. |
| Sequence | A dependency relationship that asserts one Individual's temporal extent is completely before the temporal extent of another. |
| Service Architecture | An element used to denote a model of the Architecture, described from the Services perspective. |
| Service Contract | A constraint governing the use of one or more Services. |
| Service Control Flow | An Activity Edge that shows the flow of control between Service Function Actions. |
Service Exchange | Asserts that a flow can exist between Services (i.e. flows of information, people, materiel, or energy). |
| Service Exchange Item | An abstract grouping for elements that defines the types of elements that can be exchanged between Services and conveyed by a Service Exchange. |
| Service Exchange Kind | Enumeration of the possible kinds of Service Exchange. The following are enumeration literals for Service Exchange Kind:
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| Service Object Flow | An Activity Edge that shows the flow of Resources (objects/information) between Service Function Actions. |
| Service Signal | A specification of a kind of communication between Services in which a reaction is asynchronously triggered in the receiver without a reply. |
| Service Signal Property | A property of a Service Signal typed by Service Exchange Item. It enables Service Exchange Item e.g. Operational Information to be passed as arguments of the Service Signal. |
| Strategic Constraint | A Rule governing a Capability. |
| Strategic Exchange | Asserts that a flow can exist between Actual Strategic Phases (i.e. flows of information, people, materiel, or energy). |
| Strategic Information | Knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance that is strategic in nature that is important or essential in relation to a plan of action. |
Value Item | An ideal, custom, or institution that an enterprise promotes or agrees with. It may be positive or negative, depending on point of view. |
| Value Item Kind | Enumeration of the possible kinds of Value Item. The following are enumeration literals for Value Item Kind: Benefit, Cost, KPI, Loss, Other, Quality, Revenue, and Time. |
| Value Stream | An end-to-end collection of activities that create a result for a customer, who may be the ultimate customer or an internal end-user of the value stream. Value stream nested within another value stream may represent Value Stream Stage - a distinct, identifiable phase or step within a value stream [The Business Architecture Metamodel Guide, 2020]. |