Once the business analyst has concluded an investigation of an organisation, the findings need to be collated and reported.
1. Explain the terms verification and validating requirements and enhance your explanation with examples.
2. Suitability of techniques for different situations as presented in Table 5.1(Paul et al., 2014, Ch. 5 p97). From this table pick 2 investigation techniques and describe how they are suitable or not suitable in an agile methodology, with examples.
Reference: Paul, D., Yeates, D., & Cadle, J. (Eds.) (2014). Business Analysis(3 ed.). Swindon, United Kingdom: BCS The Chartered Institute for IT.
Tabie - Suitability of techniques for different situations
| Investigation technique |
Understanding the situation |
Waterfall requirements elicitation |
Agile requirements elicitation |
| Interview |
Y* |
Y* |
Y* |
| Observation |
Y* |
Y* |
Y |
| Shadowing |
Y* |
Y* |
Y |
| Workshop |
Y* |
Y* |
Y* |
| Hothousing |
Y |
N |
Y* |
| Scenario analysis |
Y |
Y* |
Y* |
| Prototyping |
Y |
Y* |
Y* |
| Questionnaires |
Y* |
Y* |
N |
| Special purpose records |
Y* |
Y* |
N |
| Activity sampling |
Y* |
Y* |
N |
| Document analysis |
Y* |
Y* |
N |