BA Fundamentals
Is This Really MVP?
Technique! Technique!
The Tire
That's Random
100

Customers, Domain SME, End Users and Suppliers are all examples of this.

What are Stakeholders?

100

At the end of each sprint, agile teams should have this ceremony to look at areas of potential improvement.

What is a Sprint Retrospective?

100

Comparing the strengths and weaknesses of an organization against its peers and competitors is also known as this.

What is Benchmarking?

100

This person is Canadian Tire's current President and CEO.

Who is Greg Hicks?

100

The War of 1812 didn't actually end in 1812, but in this year.

What is 1815?

200

The "O" in SWOT Analysis stands for this.

What is "Opportunities"?

200

A list of conditions of satisfaction or criteria needed to validate a user story.

What is Acceptance Criteria?

200

This is a technique which can help identify the underlying cause of failures or difficulties in accomplishing business analysis work.

What is Root Cause Analysis?

200

The Canadian Tire Centre is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in this city.

What is Ottawa?

200

Sorry, Justin Bieber; with more than 1 billion in sales worldwide, this person is to date the best-selling solo music artist in the world.

Who is Elvis Presley?


300

This document contains key domain terms along with their business definitions.

What is the Glossary?

300

Backlog items are sometimes prioritized using the MoSCoW method, of which C stands for this.

What is "Could"?

300

This is the formal name of the technique for handling both requirements prioritization and change management in most agile approaches.

What is Backlog Management?

300

In this year, Canadian Tire 'Money', the first loyalty program in Canada, was introduced.

What is 1958?

300

This person, one of the people who discovered radium from uranium, was the first scientist to be awarded two Nobel prizes.

Who is Marie Curie?

400

Business Objectives should always follow the '"SMART" principle, of which M stands for this.

What is "Measureable"?

400

Depicted in a two-dimensional grid structure, this provides a visual depiction of the sequence of
activities to be supported by a solution, with key aspects listed horizontally, and details and priorities listed vertically.

What is Story Mapping?

400

This can be used in conjunction with other techniques such as use cases, user stories, and prototyping to detail visually and textually the sequence of activities summing up different user interactions with the system or business.

What is Storyboarding?

400

Canadian Tire's Christmas ads in the 1980s (featuring Santa Claus and Ebenezer Scrooge) used this marketing slogan.

What is "Give like Santa, save like Scrooge"?

400

A website's address refers to the acronym "URL", which stands for this.

What is Uniform Resource Locator?

500

The "INVEST" mnemonic for Agile software development is useful as a reminder of the characteristics of a good-quality Product Backlog Item, and was created by this person.

Who is Bill Wake?

500

Requirements that are defined only what is needed for the current iteration and only to the level of detail required for the team to deliver the item.

What are Just-in-time Requirements?

500

This type of diagram shows how the behavior of a concept, entity or object changes in response to events.

What is a State Diagram?

500

This actor plays Canadian Tire's 'Gary', familiar to many through his many TV spots over the years.

Who is Paul Constable?

500

Being the largest country in the world by landmass, Russia spans across this many time zones.

What is 11?