Chapter 5 Flashcards

Concept Mastery

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The purpose of requirements life cycle management

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ensure that business, stakeholder, and solution requirements and designs are aligned to one another
and that the solution implements them.

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3 major components of the requirements life cycle management

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  • begins with the representation of a business need as a requirement,
  • continues through the development of a solution, and
  • ends when a solution and the requirements that represent it are retired.
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The Requirements Life Cycle Management knowledge area includes the following tasks:

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Trace Requirements, Maintain Requirements, Prioritize Requirements, Assess Requirements Changes, Approve Requirements

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During Requirements Life Cycle

Management, business analysts what is change?

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manage how proposed changes to requirements and designs are evaluated during an initiative.

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During Requirements Life Cycle

Management, business analysts what is need?

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trace, prioritize and maintain requirements to ensure that the need is met.

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During Requirements Life Cycle

Management, business analysts what is Solution?

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trace requirements and designs to solution components to ensure that the solution satisfies the need.

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During Requirements Life Cycle Management, business analysts what is Stakeholder?

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work closely with key stakeholders to maintain understanding, agreement, and approval of requirements and designs.

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During Requirements Life Cycle Management, business analysts what is value?

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maintain requirements for reuse to extend

value beyond the current initiative.

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During Requirements Life Cycle Management, business analysts what is context?

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analyze the context to support tracing and prioritization activities.

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What is the purpose of trace requirements?

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ensure that requirements and designs at different levels are aligned to one another, and to manage the effects of change to one level on related requirements.

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Traceability is used to help ensure that

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the solution conforms to requirements and to assist in scope, change, risk, time, cost, and communication management.

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Traceability enables:

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• faster and simpler impact analysis,
• more reliable discovery of inconsistencies and gaps in requirements,
• deeper insights into the scope and complexity of a change, and
• reliable assessment of which requirements have been addressed and which
have not.

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relationships that the business analyst considers when

defining the traceability approach:

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Derive, Depend, satisfy, validate

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What is derive?

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relationship between two requirements, used when a requirement is derived from another requirement.

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What are the types of depend traceability?

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necessity, effort

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What is satisfy traceability?

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relationship between an implementation element and the requirements it is satisfying.

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What is validate traceability?

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

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What are the guidelilnes/tools for traceability?

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knowledge domain, Information Management Approach, Legal/Regulatory Information, Requirements Management Tools/Repository

19
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What are some techniques for traceability?

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Business Rules Analysis, Functional Decomposition, Process Modelling, Scope Modelling

20
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What are the outputs of traceability?

A

Requirements and Design

21
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The purpose of Maintain Requirements

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retain requirement accuracy and consistency throughout and beyond the change during the entire requirements life cycle, and to support reuse of requirements in other solutions.

22
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In order to maximize the benefits of maintaining and reusing requirements, the requirements should be:

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consistently represented,
• reviewed and approved for maintenance using a standardized process that
defines proper access rights and ensures quality, and
• easily accessible and understandable.

23
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What are the inputs for maintaining requirements?

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Requirements and Design

24
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What are the guidelines and tools of maintaining requirements?

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Information Management Approach

25
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What are the techniques of maintaining requirements?

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Business Rules Analysis, Data Flow Diagrams, Data Modelling, Document Analysis, Functional Decomposition, Process Modelling, Use Cases and Scenarios, User Stories

26
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What are the outputs of maintaining requirements?

A

Requirements and design

27
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What are the inputs of prioritizing requirements?

A

Requirements and Design

28
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Typical factors that influence prioritization include:

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Benefit, Penalty, Cost, Risk, Dependency, time sensitivity, stability, regulatory or policy compliance

29
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What are the guidelines and tools of prioritizing requirements?

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Business Constraints, change strategy, domain knowledge, Governance Approach, requirements architecture, Requirements Management Tools/Repository, solution scope,

30
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What are some techniques of prioritizing requirements?

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Backlog Management, business cases, decision analysis, estimation, Financial Analysis, Interviews, Item Tracking, Prioritization, Risk Analysis and Management, Workshops

31
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What are the outputs of prioritizing requirements?

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Design and Requirements

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The purpose of Assess Requirements Changes

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evaluate the implications of proposed changes to requirements and designs.

33
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When assessing changes, business analysts consider if each proposed change:

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• aligns with the overall strategy,
• affects value delivered to the business or stakeholder groups,
• impacts the time to deliver or the resources required to deliver the value,
and
• alters any risks, opportunities, or constraints associated with the overall
initiative.

34
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what are the inputs of Assess Requirements Changes?

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Proposed Change, Requirements, Designs

35
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What are the guidelines and tools of assessing requirements changes?

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Change Strategy, Domain Knowledge, Governance Approach, Legal/Regulatory Information, Requirements Architecture, Solution Scope

36
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What are the techniques of assessing requirements changes?

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business cases, business rules analysis, decision analysis, document analysis, estimation, financial analysis, interface analysis, interviews, item tracking, risk analysis, and mangement, workshops

37
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What are the outputs of asssessing requirements changes?

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Requirements Change Assessment, design change assessment

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The purpose of Approve Requirements is?

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to obtain agreement on and approval of

requirements and designs for business analysis work to continue and/or solution construction to proceed.

39
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What are the inputs of approve requirements?

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Requirements and Design

40
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The approval process is defined by

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Plan Business Analysis Governance

41
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What are the guidelines and tools of approve requirements?

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Change Strategy, governance approach, Legal/Regulatory Information, Requirement Management Tools/Repository, solution scope

42
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What are the techniques of approval requirements?

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Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Decision Analysis, item tracking, reviews, workshops

43
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What are the outputs of approval requirements?

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Requirements and Design