AAC AAC Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In agile analysis, what is the primary purpose of a stakeholder map?
- To assign tasks to team members
- To identify, categorize, and prioritize stakeholders by influence and interest (Correct answer)
- To document stakeholder salaries
- To create a sprint schedule
Correct answer: To identify, categorize, and prioritize stakeholders by influence and interest
A stakeholder map helps agile analysts identify and categorize stakeholders by their level of influence and interest so engagement efforts can be prioritized appropriately.
Question 2: Which technique is most effective for eliciting requirements from a large, geographically dispersed stakeholder group in an agile project?
- One-on-one interviews only
- Collaborative online workshops using digital facilitation tools (Correct answer)
- Sending written surveys with no follow-up
- Reviewing legacy documentation alone
Correct answer: Collaborative online workshops using digital facilitation tools
Collaborative online workshops using digital facilitation tools (e.g., Miro, MURAL) enable real-time participation and consensus-building across distributed stakeholders.
Question 3: What does the term 'product champion' refer to in agile stakeholder collaboration?
- The most experienced developer on the team
- A stakeholder who advocates for the product and helps remove organizational obstacles (Correct answer)
- The Scrum Master managing ceremonies
- The person who writes acceptance criteria
Correct answer: A stakeholder who advocates for the product and helps remove organizational obstacles
A product champion is a stakeholder who actively supports the product, promotes its value, and helps overcome internal resistance or obstacles.
Question 4: When a key stakeholder consistently misses sprint reviews, what is the recommended agile analysis approach?
- Proceed without their input
- Cancel the sprint review until they attend
- Engage the stakeholder to understand their constraints and adjust communication channels (Correct answer)
- Escalate immediately to senior management
Correct answer: Engage the stakeholder to understand their constraints and adjust communication channels
Agile analysts should proactively engage absent stakeholders to understand barriers and adapt communication methods to ensure continued collaboration.
Question 5: Which agile artifact is most useful for communicating the product's progress and upcoming priorities to stakeholders?
- Sprint backlog
- Team velocity chart
- Product roadmap (Correct answer)
- Daily standup notes
Correct answer: Product roadmap
The product roadmap provides stakeholders with a high-level, time-oriented view of the product's strategic direction and upcoming priorities.
Question 6: In the AAC body of knowledge, 'shared understanding' between analysts and stakeholders is best achieved through:
- Extensive written specifications
- Frequent, collaborative conversations and visual modeling (Correct answer)
- Formal approval sign-offs only
- Sending email updates weekly
Correct answer: Frequent, collaborative conversations and visual modeling
Shared understanding in agile analysis is built through ongoing, collaborative conversations and visual tools like wireframes and process maps rather than static documents.
AAC AAC Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration 1
In agile analysis, what is the primary purpose of a stakeholder map?