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Question 314

A company that specialized in manufacturing vending machines for books has been in business for 10 years. As the e-book and online retailing grow, the company perceived that a change is required to respond to the new emerging market forces. However, the change should focus on reusability as much as possible to reduce expenses. After analyzing the current state with the business subject matter experts, the business analyst (BA) proposed investing in a new business line of vending machines that sell pay per use mobile device phone fast charging stations.

Due to the urgency of this change, the BA was asked to finalize requirements elicitation in the shortest possible time.

The BA was able to complete requirements elicitation activities in a short period of time.

Which type of elicitation approach did the BA use?

    Correct Answer: B

    The business analyst completed the requirements elicitation by interacting directly with business subject matter experts and addressing the urgency of the change. This direct interaction and reliance on the expertise and judgment of stakeholders is characteristic of a collaborative approach to elicitation.

Discussion
mdadewaleOption: B

Babok pg 71 4.2.2

mdadewale

There are three common types of elicitation: • Collaborative: involves direct interaction with stakeholders, and relies on their experiences, expertise, and judgment. • Research: involves systematically discovering and studying information from materials or sources that are not directly known by stakeholders involved in the change. Stakeholders might still participate in the research. Research can include data analysis of historical data to identify trends or past results. • Experiments: involves identifying information that could not be known without some sort of controlled test. Some information cannot be drawn from people or documents—because it is unknown. Experiments can help discover this kind of information. Experiments include observational studies, proofs of concept, and prototypes.

OmojesunOption: B

this should be B page 71 babok

OlivierPaudexOption: A

The BA made the current state analysis with the SME, but he proposed a solution on a quick time, means he experiment the solution. This is more an experiment that a real collaboration with the SME. Nothing told us that the SME has helped the BA with the requirement I would go with answer A

OlivierPaudex

Change my mind. It should be a collaborative elicitation, which involves direct interaction with stakeholders. There is no waste of time in a collaboration elicitation.

CapieOption: A

Since requirements was captured within a very short time, the answer should be Experiment e.g Prototype

HappyAOption: A

It is Experiment as per pg 403

Qualms

Option B - Collaborative. The BA consulted SMEs before recommending the solution. BABOK 4.2.2 - Collaborative: involves direct interaction with stakeholders, and relies on their experiences, expertise, and judgment.

rhsdealOption: B

I think collaborative. But research is possible since the question mentions market trends. However the question didn’t state the ba noticed the trends. Going with B -collaborative.