5 Requirements Life Cycle Management

Question 1

analyzes and maintains the relationships between requirements, designs, solution components, and other work products for impact analysis, coverage, and allocation.

Answer 1

Trace Requirements

Question 2

ensures that requirements and designs are accurate and current throughout the life cycle and facilitates reuse where appropriate

Answer 2

Maintain Requirements

Question 3

assesses the value, urgency, and risks associated with particular requirements and designs to ensure that analysis and/or delivery work is done on the most important ones at any given time.

Answer 3

Prioritize Requirements:

Question 4

evaluates new and changing stakeholder requirements to determine if they need to be acted on within the scope of a change.

Answer 4

Assess Requirements Changes

Question 5

works with stakeholders involved in the governance process to reach approval and agreement on requirements and designs.

Answer 5

Approve Requirements

Question 6

relationship between two requirements, used when a requirement is derived from another requirement. This type of relationship is appropriate to link the requirements on different levels of abstraction. For example, a solution requirement derived from a business or a stakeholder requirement.

Answer 6

Derive
(relationships)

Question 7

when it only makes sense to implement a particular requirement if a related requirement is also implemented.

Answer 7

Necessity
(Relationships)

Question 8

when a requirement is easier to implement if a related requirement is also implemented.

Answer 8

Effort
(Relationships)

Question 9

relationship between an implementation element and the requirements it is satisfying. For example, the relationship between a functional requirement and a solution component that is implementing it.

Answer 9

Satisfy
(Relationships)

Question 10

relationship between a requirement and a test case or other element that can determine whether a solution fulfills the requirement.

Answer 10

Validate
(Relationships)

Question 11

documented and maintained in accordance with the methods identified by the business analysis approach. Requirements management tools can provide significant benefits when there is a need to trace a large number of requirements that may be deemed unmanageable with manual approaches.

Answer 11

Traceability Repository

Question 12

Information such as the requirement’s source, priority, and complexity aid in managing each requirement throughout the life cycle.

Answer 12

Maintain Attributes

Question 13

Requirements that are candidates for long-term use by the organization are identified, clearly named, defined, and stored in a manner that makes them easily retrievable by other stakeholders.

Answer 13

Reusing Requirements

Question 14

is performed as** new needs** or possible solutions are identified.

Answer 14

Assess Requirements Changes

Question 15

can be identified at any time and impact any aspect of business analysis work or deliverables completed to date

Answer 15

Proposed Change

Question 16

the assessment process based on the information available, the apparent importance of the change, and the governance process.

Answer 16

Assessment Formality

Question 17

is performed to assess or evaluate the effect of a change.

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Impact Analysis

Question 18

Depending on the planned approach, various stakeholders (including the business analyst) may be authorized to approve, deny, or defer the proposed change.

Answer 18

Impact Resolution

Question 19

The business analyst records approval decisions, possibly in requirements maintenance and tracking tools. In order to communicate the status of requirements, it is necessary to keep accurate records of current approval status.

Answer 19

Track and Communicate Approval