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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 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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Question

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?

Options

  • AFocus Group
  • BBrainstorming
  • CSurvey
  • DGroup interview

How the community answered

(29 responses)
  • A
    72% (21)
  • B
    17% (5)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    7% (2)

Why each option

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.

AFocus GroupCorrect

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.

BBrainstorming

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.

CSurvey

A Survey distributes written questions to respondents individually to collect data at scale and does not involve a facilitated real-time group discussion.

DGroup interview

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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