When faced with a tight timeline, the project sponsor suggests that the project team start development without creating traceability artifacts. What…

The business analyst should explain the value of requirements traceability to the project sponsor.

Requirements traceability is the process of tracking and documenting the relationships and

dependencies among the requirements, the project deliverables, and the business objectives.

Requirements traceability helps to ensure the quality, completeness, and alignment of the

requirements, and to manage the changes, risks, and issues that may arise during the

project. Requirements traceability also helps to measure the performance and the value of the

solution, and to facilitate the verification and validation of the solution. Reference: PMI Professional

in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® Examination Content Outline1, page 20; Business Analysis for

Practitioners: A Practice Guide2, page 100.