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1/10 · Strategy Horizon
At which of the three horizons described in the Agile Extension does the team focus on understanding the desired future state, defining the business need, and deciding the overall direction the organization should take to deliver value?
AInitiative Horizon
BDelivery Horizon
CStrategy Horizon
DDiscovery Horizon
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C is correct. The Agile Extension organizes agile business analysis into three horizons: Strategy, Initiative, and Delivery. The Strategy Horizon is the highest level, where the organization decides its direction, articulates the business need, and describes the desired future state that will create or enable value.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Strategy Horizon
2/10 · Initiative Horizon
Within the Agile Extension's three horizons of agile analysis, which horizon sits between the Strategy Horizon and the Delivery Horizon and is concerned with deciding how to deliver a particular solution that contributes to strategic goals?
AStrategy Horizon
BDelivery Horizon
CInitiative Horizon
DPortfolio Horizon
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C is correct. The Agile Extension defines three horizons of agile analysis. The Strategy Horizon takes the broadest, longest-range view of desired business outcomes. The Delivery Horizon is the nearest-term view focused on building and delivering value. The Initiative Horizon is the middle horizon, where analysis focuses on how a chosen initiative will deliver a solution that supports the strategic outcomes.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Initiative Horizon
3/10 · Principles of Agile Analysis
In the Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide, agile business analysis is described as operating across three distinct horizons. Which set correctly names these three horizons?
AVision, Roadmap, and Backlog
BStrategy, Initiative, and Delivery
CDiscovery, Definition, and Deployment
DPortfolio, Program, and Team
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B is correct. The Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide frames agile business analysis as work that spans three horizons that differ in time frame and scope: Strategy (the broadest, ongoing view of what creates value), Initiative (a bounded change intended to realize some of that value), and Delivery (the immediate building, validating, and learning from increments). The other options mix up scaling-framework levels, planning artifacts, and generic phase names.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Principles of Agile Analysis
4/10 · Delivery Horizon
Within the Agile Extension's model of planning horizons, what primarily distinguishes the Delivery Horizon from the Initiative and Strategy Horizons?
AIt defines the organization's long-term vision and the business outcomes that justify investment.
BIt is concerned with the team's day-to-day work of building and delivering increments of a solution that produce value now.
CIt establishes which initiatives the organization will pursue over the coming quarters to advance the strategy.
DIt coordinates portfolio-level trade-offs across multiple competing programs of work.
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B is correct. The Agile Extension frames agile analysis across three nested horizons. The Delivery Horizon is the shortest and most concrete: it is where a team turns understood needs into working, valuable increments here and now. Strategy sets long-term direction and Initiative selects the work that advances it, while Delivery executes the immediate build-and-deliver cycle.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Delivery Horizon
5/10 · Strategy Horizon
A product organization has just confirmed its desired future state and overall business need. A senior stakeholder argues that, because Strategy work is now 'done,' it should be archived and never revisited until the next annual planning cycle. Based on the Agile Extension's view of the horizons, what is the most accurate response?
AStrategy work belongs solely to executives, so analysts should not feed delivery learnings back into it
BStrategy is a single up-front phase that is completed before any Initiative or Delivery work begins and is intentionally locked for the year
CStrategy should only be revisited if the Delivery Horizon fails to meet its sprint commitments
DThe horizons are continuous and interdependent, so strategy is regularly revisited as learning from the Initiative and Delivery horizons feeds back and informs direction
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D is correct. In the Agile Extension the three horizons are not strict sequential phases. They operate continuously and feed each other: as teams learn while delivering value, that knowledge flows back up to inform and adjust the strategy. Locking strategy for a fixed period contradicts the adaptive, feedback-driven intent of the horizons.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Strategy Horizon
6/10 · Initiative Horizon
A team has agreed on a strategic outcome and has selected an initiative to pursue it. According to the Agile Extension, what is the primary analysis focus at the Initiative Horizon for this initiative?
ASelecting individual contractors and provisioning developer workstations
BDefining the enterprise's long-term vision and overall strategic direction
CDetermining the approach for delivering a solution that achieves the desired business outcome
DWriting detailed acceptance criteria for the next iteration's stories
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C is correct. The Initiative Horizon is where business analysis determines how to deliver a solution that achieves a desired business outcome. It is broader than a single increment but narrower than enterprise strategy, sitting deliberately between the Strategy and Delivery Horizons.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Initiative Horizon
7/10 · Principles of Agile Analysis
A business analyst is helping a leadership team decide which broad business outcomes the organization should pursue over the next 18 to 24 months and how those outcomes connect to overall value. The analysis focuses on long-term direction rather than on any specific change effort or sprint. At which horizon is this business analysis work primarily taking place?
AThe Strategy horizon
BThe Initiative horizon
CThe Retrospective horizon
DThe Delivery horizon
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A is correct. Decisions about long-term business outcomes and overall value direction sit at the Strategy horizon, the broadest and longest-term of the three horizons. The Initiative horizon would scope a particular change, and the Delivery horizon would focus on immediate increments. 'Retrospective horizon' is a distractor that does not exist in the framework.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Principles of Agile Analysis
8/10 · Delivery Horizon
A team is two iterations away from working on a set of backlog items. A business analyst feels pressure to fully specify detailed acceptance criteria and edge cases for all of those items now so 'nothing is missed later.' Applying the Delivery Horizon mindset, what is the most appropriate response?
AStop analyzing future items entirely and analyze only what is in the current iteration.
BElaborate each item only to the level of detail needed at the moment, deferring fine-grained detail until the item is close to being worked on.
CEscalate to the Initiative Horizon and have the portfolio team specify the acceptance criteria.
DSpecify every item in full detail immediately so the developers have complete information well in advance.
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B is correct. A defining practice of the Delivery Horizon is just-in-time (progressive) elaboration: analyze each item to the level of detail required for the current decision, and defer finer detail until the item is about to be built. This minimizes rework when priorities and understanding evolve, while still keeping a small buffer of refined, ready items ahead of the team.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Delivery Horizon
9/10 · Strategy Horizon · hard
A strategy team has identified a highly valuable future state, but it ignores known technical, regulatory, and capacity constraints when sequencing the roadmap, leading to repeated commitments that cannot be met. Which principle of agile analysis should the team apply to ground their strategic choices in what can realistically be achieved?
AUnderstand What is Doable
BAnalyze to Determine What is Valuable
CThink as a Customer
DAvoid Waste
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A is correct. 'Understand What is Doable' is one of the seven principles of agile analysis. It reminds practitioners to incorporate feasibility, constraints, and capacity into analysis so that strategic decisions and roadmaps are realistic. Repeatedly committing to outcomes without weighing what can actually be delivered signals a gap in applying this principle.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Strategy Horizon
10/10 · Strategy Horizon · hard
A backlog at the strategy level contains dozens of candidate outcomes with limited capacity to pursue them. The team wants a principled basis for spending analysis effort where it most helps decide which outcomes are worth pursuing and in what order. Which principle of agile analysis best frames this work?
AAnalyze to Determine What is Valuable
BStimulate Collaboration and Continuous Improvement
CSee the Whole
DUnderstand What is Doable
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A is correct. 'Analyze to Determine What is Valuable' guides practitioners to direct analysis toward clarifying and comparing the value of potential outcomes so they can be prioritized. When capacity is constrained and many candidate outcomes compete, this principle anchors the prioritization decisions at the Strategy Horizon.
↗ Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide v2 — Strategy Horizon
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20 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) every year.
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