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CBAP · Question #45

Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis. What characteristic must be true of changes in the approach that your organization is using?

The correct answer is C. All the changes only occur if they are genuinely necessary. In a plan-driven approach, changes are permitted but must be genuinely necessary and go through a formal change control process.

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

Question

Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis. What characteristic must be true of changes in the approach that your organization is using?

Options

  • AAll the changes only occur if they are less than an agreed factor, such as ten percent of the
  • BAll the changes only occur if they are less than ten percent of the solution's overall cost.
  • CAll the changes only occur if they are genuinely necessary.
  • DChanges are generally not permitted in the plan-driven approach to business analysis.

How the community answered

(53 responses)
  • A
    17% (9)
  • B
    8% (4)
  • C
    72% (38)
  • D
    4% (2)

Why each option

In a plan-driven approach, changes are permitted but must be genuinely necessary and go through a formal change control process.

AAll the changes only occur if they are less than an agreed factor, such as ten percent of the

No recognized BA framework defines plan-driven change control by a vague percentage threshold - the criterion is necessity and formal approval, not an arbitrary factor.

BAll the changes only occur if they are less than ten percent of the solution's overall cost.

Restricting changes to those costing less than ten percent of solution cost is not a defined characteristic of any standard plan-driven BA methodology.

CAll the changes only occur if they are genuinely necessary.Correct

The plan-driven approach uses formal change control - changes are not forbidden outright but must be justified as genuinely necessary before being approved and incorporated. This reflects the core characteristic of predictive/plan-driven methodologies where the baseline plan is protected and only warranted changes are accepted through a defined process.

DChanges are generally not permitted in the plan-driven approach to business analysis.

Changes are not completely forbidden in a plan-driven approach - they are controlled and must pass through a formal change management process to be approved.

Concept tested: Change control in plan-driven business analysis approach

Source: https://www.iiba.org/standards-and-resources/babok/

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#plan-driven approach#change management#business analysis approach#scope control

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