CAPM Practice: Determine how to gather requirements
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Correct answer: Design thinking centers on deep user empathy, reframes problems, generates diverse solution concepts, and uses rapid prototyping to test assumptions — producing requirements from experimentation rather than documentation
Explanation
Design thinking is a human-centered innovation approach: Empathize → Define → Ideate → Prototype → Test. It's especially valuable for innovative products where requirements can't be known in advance — they emerge through rapid experimentation and user feedback cycles.
**Why not A:** Design thinking is not focused on technical design specifications. It is a human-centered innovation approach that emphasizes deep user empathy and experimentation. Technical specifications are an output of later development phases, not the focus of design thinking.
**Why not B:** Design thinking does not require professional designers to lead sessions. It is a methodology that anyone — including BAs, product managers, and team members — can facilitate. The approach values diverse perspectives and collaborative experimentation over specialized design expertise.
**Why not C:** Design thinking is not a tool exclusively for software architects. It is a broadly applicable innovation methodology used by BAs, product managers, and cross-functional teams to understand user needs and generate creative solutions through empathy, ideation, and rapid prototyping.
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