CBAP · Question #112
You are the business analyst for your organization. You want to use a requirements elicitation technique to produce a broad set of options for an identified problem. You want the stakeholders to…
The correct answer is B. Brainstorming. Brainstorming is the elicitation technique specifically designed to rapidly generate a broad set of ideas, options, and perspectives from a group of stakeholders without immediate judgment.
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You are the business analyst for your organization. You want to use a requirements elicitation technique to produce a broad set of options for an identified problem. You want the stakeholders to help you identify options, factors that affect the solution, any possible delays in the solution implementation, and ideas for creating a solution. Which of the following requirements elicitation activities would best satisfy these requirements?
Options
- ABenchmarking
- BBrainstorming
- CData flow diagrams
- DBusiness rules analysis
How the community answered
(45 responses)- A2% (1)
- B78% (35)
- C7% (3)
- D13% (6)
Why each option
Brainstorming is the elicitation technique specifically designed to rapidly generate a broad set of ideas, options, and perspectives from a group of stakeholders without immediate judgment.
Benchmarking involves comparing an organization's processes or performance against industry standards or competitors and does not focus on generating a broad set of new ideas or solution options.
Brainstorming is an elicitation technique that engages stakeholders in a facilitated session to freely generate ideas, identify solution options, surface potential risks or delays, and propose approaches to a problem. It is explicitly intended to produce a wide, unconstrained set of possibilities before evaluation or filtering occurs. This matches the goal of identifying options, influencing factors, potential delays, and solution ideas all at once.
Data flow diagrams are a modeling and documentation technique used to represent how data moves through a system and are not an elicitation technique for generating solution ideas.
Business rules analysis identifies, clarifies, and documents the rules that govern business decisions and is not aimed at producing a broad set of solution options or ideas.
Concept tested: Brainstorming elicitation technique for idea generation
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