Strategy Horizon Analysis Flashcards
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A business analyst uses the Three Horizons model. Horizon 1 activities are best characterized as:
Answer: Sustaining and defending core business profitability
Horizon 1 focuses on extending and defending the core business to sustain current profitability.
In Agile strategy horizon analysis, which artifact best captures trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term capability building?
Answer: Architecture runway
The architecture runway represents the pre-built technical capability that balances immediate features with future scalability.
A company's Horizon 3 initiative fails to transition into Horizon 2. The MOST likely Agile BA intervention is to:
Answer: Conduct a feasibility spike and reassess market signals
A feasibility spike helps validate assumptions and reassess whether market signals support continued investment.
Which planning cadence aligns MOST closely with Horizon 2 strategy work in a scaled Agile framework?
Answer: Program Increment planning
Program Increment (PI) planning operates at the right cadence to coordinate emerging opportunities that need cross-team alignment.
A BA facilitates a strategy horizon workshop. Participants keep placing initiatives in multiple horizons. The BEST facilitation response is to:
Answer: Clarify that horizons represent time-to-maturity, not importance
Clarifying that horizons reflect maturity timelines, not value ranking, resolves the most common misclassification error.
How does Lean Portfolio Management in SAFe use horizon thinking when allocating capacity?
Answer: It assigns fixed percentage budgets to each of the three horizons
Lean Portfolio Management typically sets percentage-based investment allocations across horizons to balance exploitation and exploration.
A product owner argues that a Horizon 3 experiment should follow the same Definition of Done as core features. The BA should explain that:
Answer: Experiments need a lighter-weight validated-learning DoD, not a shippable-product DoD
Horizon 3 experiments should be judged by validated learning outcomes, not production-readiness standards.
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