CBAP · Question #398
A business analyst (BA) wants to estimate the potential value delivered by a set of requirements and design options by targeting a small group of stakeholders to understand their perceived value and e
The correct answer is A. Focus Group. A Focus Group is the elicitation technique that involves facilitating a structured discussion with a small, targeted group of stakeholders to gather their perceived value, expectations, and feedback on a topic.
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A business analyst (BA) wants to estimate the potential value delivered by a set of requirements and design options by targeting a small group of stakeholders to understand their perceived value and expectations. The BA is going to organize a discussion during which feedback is collected. Which technique will be used?
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- AFocus Group
- BBrainstorming
- CSurvey
- DGroup interview
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(29 responses)- A72% (21)
- B17% (5)
- C3% (1)
- D7% (2)
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A Focus Group is the elicitation technique that involves facilitating a structured discussion with a small, targeted group of stakeholders to gather their perceived value, expectations, and feedback on a topic.
A Focus Group is defined as a facilitated elicitation technique that assembles a pre-selected, small group of stakeholders to discuss a specific subject and collect their opinions and perceived value; it is ideal here because the BA needs qualitative insight into stakeholder expectations through interactive group discussion, not individual responses or idea generation.
Brainstorming is designed to generate a high volume of creative ideas in a group setting and is not structured for assessing perceived value or collecting targeted feedback on existing requirements and design options.
A Survey distributes written questions to respondents individually to collect data at scale and does not involve a facilitated real-time group discussion.
A Group Interview involves structured questioning of multiple participants simultaneously but is more investigative and less open-ended than a Focus Group, and is not the primary technique for understanding perceived value through guided discussion.
Concept tested: Focus Group elicitation technique for stakeholder value estimation
Source: https://www.iiba.org/standards-and-resources/babok/
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