A company that specialized in manufacturing vending machines for books has been in business for 10 years. As the e-book and online retailing grow, the company perceived that a change is required to respond to the new emerging market forces. However, the change should focus on reusability as much as possible to reduce expenses. After analyzing the current state with the business subject matter experts, the business analyst
(BA) proposed investing in a new business line of vending machines that sell pay per use mobile device phone fast charging stations.
Due to the urgency of this change, the BA was asked to finalize requirements elicitation in the shortest possible time.
Customers who want to utilize the pay per use mobile device fast charging stations may choose one of two features: fully charged (F1) or partially charged (F2). If partially charged is selected, the customer needs to specify their charging needs.
What is the relationship between F1 and F2?
A large insurance company wants to buy a new claims processing system or upgrade one of its two existing system. Each year the claims department is given a $3.5 million budget to spend. Time is of the essence since there are tome regulatory charges that will be coming the following year that will require several features that currently neither one of the two claims System currently support.
There are eight stakeholders involved in this initiative. There are local to where the claim system is managed, while five are located across the country. The business analyst (BA) struggled to get all stakeholders to agree on the desired features but ultimately got agreement on ten identified key features for the new claims system. The BA was able to build a current state and future state process model which included all ten key features.
System a processes 75% of the company's claims. It is 5 years old and the claim processors love it because it is easy to use. However, it must go offline for two hours each day. The code is very module so it does have flexibility to be modified. To upgrade system A to have all ten features it would cost $5 million. System A would be at capacity if it were to process all of the company's claims.
System B process 25% of the company's claims. It is an older mainframe system, but rarely goes offline. It could easily handle double the number of claims that system A processes. However, it has a lot of legacy code and would cost $6 million to upgrade.
Both systems have some of the desired key features. But neither system has all ten. The cost to buy a new system would be $7 million.
Below is the estimated cost for each feature in priority order.
During elicitation the BA must understand the non-functional requirements. What nonfunctional requirement does System B support over System A?
The solutes presented by a business analyst (BA) to the stakeholders eliminated the need to maintain different variations of ship-to-country and location-to-rout* for various freight carriers. Instead, the routing would use a standard carrier code, giving the business me flexibility to just ship to new countries without raising a change request to IT. which was the current road-block to business. What opportunity did the BA present to the stakeholders?
The project manager wants to have the requirements analysis phase approved and asks the business analyst (BA) if this is possible The BA wants to ensure that the requirements package
The table illustrate the statement of cash flower for a courier company for the last fiscal year:
Due to aggressive market competition the management of the company performed a strategy review and based on their0-findings and the current market conditions, they came up with strategic and tactical changes in order to keep a competitive market position.
In order to strength customer retention strategies through a new competitive advantage, the company is considering implementing a live parcel tracking system. The added value will be that the customers may determine the exact location on of the parcel whether it is in a warehouse, crossing the ocean through an overseas the exact location of th parcel whether it is in a warehouse, crossing the ocean through an overseas the ship, or travelling in a delivery truck at any time. The system tracks the location of the parcel by tracking the vehicle in which it is contained. However, for a group of old delivery trucks, it was noticed that the engine sound and vibration disturbed the tracking signal and caused of management would like to sell these vehicles and replace them with newer ones, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) was strongly against that approach. The CFO argoad that instead of hanging tracking devices on the trucks body they can have the truck drivers manually send the truck send the truck location from a hand held mobile device every 20 minutes.
The CFO's resistance to replacing the older vehicles represents which type of cost?
A conservative company with rigorous risk control plans and internal audit rules has a recurrent problem with a core Business application. As a result access to this application must be restricted and controlled and maintenance must be on-site. However, the company feels that the application must have an emergency service team. The routine maintenance of this solution is provided by an external vendor and the vendor requested 24 hours remote access to quality and production data. In this context what is the company's response to the vendor's request?
While working on a major project to replace the billing mechanism at a bank, a major change in scope is discussed. Which approach does the business analyst (BA) use to help determine the formality of the assessment process to be followed to understand the impacts of the scope change?