Chapter 5: Elements

Question 1

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes the effort required to trace requirements, and conciders the value delivered with each relationship, and the nature and use of the specific relationships that are being traced?

Answer 1

Level of Formality (Trace Requirements)

Question 2

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes several types of relationships that the business analyst considers when defining the traceability approach: derive, depends, necessity, effort, satisfy, validate?

Answer 2

Relationships (Trace Requirements)

Question 3

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes documenting and maintaining requirements traceability in accordance with the business analysis approach?

Answer 3

Traceability Repository (Trace Requirements)

Question 4

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes maintaining requirements so that they remain correct and current after an approved change, and maintain relationships among sets of requirements to ensure the context and intent of the requirement is preserved?

Answer 4

Maintain Requirements (Maintain Requirements)

Question 5

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes maintaining previously elicited requirement attributes such as source, priority and complexity?

Answer 5

Maintain Attributes (Maintain Requirements)

Question 6

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes reusing requirements within current or similar initiatives, departments or throughout the entire organisation depending on the level of abstraction and intended need being addressed? Requirements which are represented in a general manner are more resuable, while requirements expressed in more detail are more closley linked with a specific solution.

Answer 6

Reusing Requirements (Maintain Requirements)

Question 7

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes the basis on which requirements are prioritised and agreed upon by relevant stakeholders? Factors include benefit, penalty, cost, risk, dependencies, time sensibility and stability.

Answer 7

Basis for Prioritisation (Prioritise Requirements)

Question 8

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes responding to challenges and conflicts during prioritisation such as stakeholder values differing, or inability to lower a requirements priority or make trade-offs?

Answer 8

Challenges of Prioritisation (Prioritise Requirements)

Question 9

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes re-prioritising requirements as the context evolves or as more information becomes available, and incorporating additional bases for prioritisation as required?

Answer 9

Continual Prioritisation (Prioritise Requirements)

Question 10

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes determining the formality of the assessment process based on the information available, importance of the change, and the governance process? A predictive approach may require a more formal assessment of proposed changes, while an adaptive approach may require a less formal assessment of proposed changes.

Answer 10

Assessment Formality (Assess Requirements Changes)

Question 11

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes reviewing relationships between requirements following changes to requirements, and assessing or evaluating the effect of a change; considering benefit, cost, impact, schedule and urgency?

Answer 11

Impact Analysis (Assess Requirements Changes)

Question 12

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes approving, denying or defering a proposed change, in accordance with the planned approach, and documenting and communicating impacts and resolutions to stakeholders?

Answer 12

Impact Resolution (Assess Requirements Changes)

Question 13

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes understanding stakeholder roles, responsibilities and authority levels, and considers stakeholders influence on decision making?

Answer 13

Understand Stakeholder Roles (Approve Requirements)

Question 14

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes maintaining stakeholder support, securing decisions and resolving conflicts in accordance with the business analysis governance approach?

Answer 14

Conflict and Issue Management (Approve Requirements)

Question 15

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes ensuring stakeholders understanding of requirements, obtaining approval of requirements, reviewing requirements and changes with stakeholders, and identifying and managing conflicts?

Answer 15

Gain Consensus (Approve Requirements)

Question 16

Which Element from Requirements Life Cycle Management describes recording approval decisions and communicating the current approval status of requirements?

Answer 16

Track and Communicate Approval (Approve Requirements)