CBAP · Question #74
You are the business analyst for your organization. Your current project is using a plan-driven approach for the requirements, business analysis, and monitoring. Which one of the following…
The correct answer is D. Plan-driven approaches typically call for a significant amount of formality and detail. Plan-driven business analysis is characterized by heavy formality and detailed documentation. This contrasts with adaptive approaches that favor flexibility and minimal documentation.
Question
You are the business analyst for your organization. Your current project is using a plan-driven approach for the requirements, business analysis, and monitoring. Which one of the following statements best describes the plan-driven approach to business analysis planning and monitoring?
Options
- APlan-driven approaches determine how priorities will be diagnosed for the project solution.
- BPlan-driven approaches encourage changes that prevent errors and omissions.
- CPlan-driven approaches typically have meetings daily to discuss the business analysis
- DPlan-driven approaches typically call for a significant amount of formality and detail.
How the community answered
(48 responses)- A4% (2)
- B8% (4)
- C15% (7)
- D73% (35)
Why each option
Plan-driven business analysis is characterized by heavy formality and detailed documentation. This contrasts with adaptive approaches that favor flexibility and minimal documentation.
Diagnosing priorities is not a defining characteristic unique to plan-driven approaches - prioritization methods are used across both plan-driven and adaptive methodologies.
Encouraging changes to prevent errors and omissions describes adaptive change-driven approaches; plan-driven approaches instead minimize and control changes through formal change control processes.
Daily meetings (standups) are a hallmark of agile/Scrum methodologies, not plan-driven approaches, which typically rely on phase-gate milestone meetings instead.
Plan-driven (predictive/waterfall) approaches require significant formality and detailed documentation at each phase, including comprehensive business analysis plans, requirements specifications, and formal approval gates - all of which must be completed before progressing to the next phase.
Concept tested: Characteristics of plan-driven business analysis approaches
Source: https://www.iiba.org/career-resources/a-business-analysis-body-of-knowledge/babok/
Topics
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.