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A project team is developing a new mobile application. During a review session, stakeholders raise concerns that a critical feature, while technically feasible, does not align with the company's long-term strategic goal of increasing market share in a specific demographic. This indicates a potential issue with which aspect of requirements quality?
- AAlignment with business objectives
- BFeasibility
- CCompleteness
- DTraceability
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: A. Alignment with business objectives
The stakeholders' concern directly relates to whether the feature supports the company's strategic goals, pointing to a lack of alignment between the requirement and broader business objectives.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Feasibility relates to whether a requirement can be implemented within given constraints (time, budget, technology).
- C. Completeness means that all necessary requirements have been captured.
- D. Traceability refers to the ability to link requirements to their source, design, and test cases.
Requirement Quality: Alignment
Ensuring that individual requirements contribute positively and directly to the overarching business objectives and strategic goals of the organization.
- Critical for project success and value delivery.
- Prevents building solutions that are technically sound but strategically irrelevant.
- Verified during requirements validation and stakeholder reviews.
Memory trick: Requirements must be CLEAR: Complete, Legal, Elicited, Aligned, Robust.