Agile Business Analysis Flashcards
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What is the key difference between a product roadmap and a sprint backlog in Agile Business Analysis?
Answer: A product roadmap shows high-level direction over time; a sprint backlog contains the work committed for one iteration
The product roadmap provides a strategic view across releases, while the sprint backlog is a tactical list of tasks for the current sprint.
In the context of Agile BA, what is 'story splitting' used for?
Answer: Breaking large epics into smaller, deliverable user stories
Story splitting decomposes large or complex stories into smaller, independently deliverable pieces that fit within a sprint.
Which elicitation technique is MOST effective when stakeholders are geographically dispersed and cannot meet in person?
Answer: Virtual collaborative workshops using digital tools
Virtual collaborative workshops using digital tools like Miro or MURAL enable effective remote elicitation across distributed teams.
What is the purpose of a 'walking skeleton' in Agile development?
Answer: A minimal end-to-end implementation that exercises the full architecture
A walking skeleton is a thin slice of the system that implements a small end-to-end function to validate the architecture early.
A business analyst is working with a team using Kanban. Which metric BEST indicates whether the team is managing work-in-progress effectively?
Answer: Cycle time
Cycle time measures how long work items take from start to completion, reflecting how well WIP limits are being managed in Kanban.
In Agile Business Analysis, what is the role of 'non-functional requirements' (NFRs)?
Answer: They define system qualities like performance, security, and scalability that constrain how the system works
NFRs define quality attributes and constraints such as response time, security standards, and reliability that the system must satisfy.
Which technique is BEST for visually representing how a user interacts with a system across multiple steps to achieve a goal?
Answer: User story map
A user story map organizes stories by the user's journey, showing the sequence of activities needed to achieve their goal.
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