Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) — Question 327

You are the business analyst for your organization. You want to use a requirements elicitation technique to produce a broad set of options for an identified problem. You want the stakeholders to help you identify options, factors that affect the solution, any possible delays in the solution implementation, and ideas for creating a solution.
Which of the following requirements elicitation activities would best satisfy these requirements?

Answer options

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B, Brainstorming, because it encourages stakeholder participation and generates a multitude of ideas and options for the problem at hand. In contrast, A (Benchmarking) focuses on comparing performance metrics with industry standards, C (Data flow diagrams) is a modeling technique for illustrating data processes, and D (Business rules analysis) concentrates on defining rules that govern business operations, which do not inherently foster a wide range of creative solutions.