You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Steve on the organize requirements process. You and Steve have elected to use the user stories approach for this process. What is the user stories approach for requirements organization?

An organization is trying to streamline its current processes to improve performance and reduce costs. A business analyst (BA) conducted a process improvement workshop and identified the following issues as the top three items to be addressed:
1. There are multiple teams to define systems, functionality, and content. In many instances multiple teams are defining the same functionalities while other functionalities are not being defined at all, leading to unclear understanding of business requirements.
2. Product specification forms are published each year. A comparison tool is used to evaluate specification between yearly releases, but does not adequately identify changes between versions and needs to be improved.
3. Training consists of a new team member shadowing a seasoned team member. There are not written training materials for formal training sources therefore training is inconsistent and not meeting the needs of the organization.
The BA learns that formal training programs are not often devised for teams as small and diverse as this team, but still believes it is a viable solution to the training need. What type of analysis would help the BA gain approval to proceed with creating this type of training program for this team?

The performance of a newly implemented document management system is falling significantly short of the measures defined as part of the project. However, the business is recognizing some level of value from the system. The business analyst (BA) considers the only option available to the company to increase performance and determines that the cost of implementing the option is ten times higher than the expected benefits. What should the BA recommend?

Which of the following stages of a project defines the number of risks and opportunities, including intense planning and anticipation of risk events?

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are coaching Tom about the different approaches to business analysis. Which type of business analysis approach has the most business analysis work at the beginning of the project or during the start of a project phase?