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 are 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 system have some of the tem 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 non functional requirement does System B support over System A?
In a requirements management effort the business analyst (BA) has reviewed all the requirements and has completed assessing the various impacts of changes to some of the requirements. The BA is planning to share the impact of the changes to an the stakeholders and obtain a consensus in resolution of some of the changes. Which technique will help the Ba obtain a resolution on the impact of the requirement changes?
A business analyst (BA) wants to create a high-level Overview of a business process as a part of an exploratory analysis. The sponsor has asked for a model that demonstrates the movement and transformation of data between entities and processes. What technique should the BA use?
A business analyst (BA) was developing an outline of the timing of business analysis activities with the project manager. What factors may impact the Timing of the activities the BA is performing?
During the testing phase, a new requirement surfaced and the stakeholder asked the developer to modify the code without informing the Business analyst (BA). The BA became aware of the new functionality after a defect was raised against another component of the design. The BA can keep this situation from occurring in the future by creating a: