You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization. While your company prefers face-to-face communications there are many stakeholders located in different geographical locations. How can you still effectively serve as a business analyst when the stakeholders are not collocated?

There are just three inputs to the assess proposed solution process. Which of the following is not one of the inputs for the assess proposed solution process?

An insurance company wants to implement a business intelligence solution to consolidate data from various different internal systems to provide a better understanding of their customer base.
A business analyst (BA) is engaged to put together a tender (bid) to be sent to various business intelligence providers and implementation partners. Among other information, the business analyst requests the following:
* Licensing costs for Year 0 based on meeting 1 Central Processing Unit (CPU) license
* Licensing costs for specific user types such as Report Creators. Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) users and Power uses Predicted licensing costs for renewing in Years 1 ad 2
* Full implementation costs
After reviewing the received vendor responses the project team shortlists the candidates to 3 and the BA structures the received information as follows:

The BA also conducts a sensitivity analysis to compare the expected costs should the company's needs grow based on the following information:
Scenario 1: Ten extra report creator, 1 extra OLAP user and 1 extra power user licenses and 2 extra CPU licenses Scenario 2: Twenty five extra report creator, 1 extra OLAP user and 1 extra power user licenses and 3 extra CPU licenses

The insurance company has a maximum budget of $810,000 for the entire implementation and operation over the first three years. Which vendor or vendors meet that criteria?

When do change requests generally increase in a project?

You are the business analyst for your organization and need a method to requirements elicitation from nearly 12,000 stakeholders. You want a method to quickly capture this group's feelings and thoughts to identify what the majority of this group needs and wants in a new solution your organization may create. What requirements elicitation technique can be used in this scenario?