Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal Consultant and Founder of EBG Consulting, Inc., is a requirements expert who works with both traditional and agile teams to help them deliver the right product at the right time. Her first book, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002) describes how to use multiple models to elicit requirements in collaborative. Her second book, The Software Requirements Memory Jogger (GOAL/QPC, 2005) is the "go to" industry guide for requirements good practices.

 

Ellen is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and has extensive experience as a professional workshop facilitator, focusing on helping projects start smart through facilitated workshops.

 

Ellen is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), an agile coach, and agile trainer with a passion about agile requirements. She works with large, complex products and helps teams elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals.

 

She is an expert reviewer for the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®), a member of the IIBA® Endorsed Education Provider committee, and advisor for several industry conferences.

 

Ellen writes articles for numerous online and print journals, has contributed to chapters to several books and speaks at a variety of conferences (e.g., Agile 20xx, Agile Development Practices, IEEE Requirements Engineering, ProjectSummit/Business Analysis World, Project World & World Congress for Business Analysis, Software Development Best Practices).

 

Ellen is a practitioner who works on client projects and also delivers training seminars.

 

Ellen also writes a free monthly eNewsletter, "Success with Requirements".

 

Before founding EBG, Ellen spent 13 years as a manager, team leader, developer, and trainer with a major insurance and financial services organization.

 

Course description:

Build skills defining small, valuable, well-defined product requirements for delivery. You learn how to create a shared understanding of product needs using collaborative techniques and slice them into well-understood, valuable chunks for development. This training focuses on iteration or work-in-progress (“Now-View”) within the context of the overall product (“Big-View”) and product releases (“Pre-View”). Through practical, integrated exercises, you learn to discover and prepare product backlog items, adapt analysis practices, and define product needs.

 

You experience how to slice requirements into right-sized stories, how to build user story maps, and practical techniques for making stories “ready” for iteration planning and team delivery. You learn to utilize option analysis and story slicing strategies, with a keen focus on business value.  This training emphasizes how to define and continually groom a healthy product backlog. 

 

 

You gain an appreciation of both the content and the timing of requirements analysis in agile projects, and learn why it’s crucial to collaborate with the entire project community throughout each delivery cycle.

 

 

Understand how to calibrate the content, format, and timing of requirements analysis to prepare for and participate in planning (iteration or work-in progress; release and product roadmap) as well as the daily analysis needed to transform requirements into tests and code.

 

 

This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) and aligns with the IIBA’s Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) applicable tasks and techniques. By attending this course you’ll earn 14 PDs (Professional Development hours) for the two-day version, or 21 PDs for the three day version for initial certification or 14 CDUs (Continuing Development Units) for the two-day version or 21 CDUs for the three-day version.

If you choose EBG’s popular “Agile Jump-Start” package, the team participates in the Agile training and immediately applies agile practices on your agile project, coached by an EBG expert. 

 

Who Should Attend

This course is valuable for all members of agile delivery teams: product owners, customers and users, scrum masters/project leaders/facilitators, business analysts, subject matter experts, data analysts, data architects and administrators, developers and designers, user interface/experience experts, agile project advisers, and coaches—anyone who is involved in defining, discovering, analyzing, verifying, validating, and specifying business needs and translating them into working software.

 

Prerequisites

Exposure to agile concepts is helpful but not required. Awareness of good requirements practices and analysis models is desirable but not required.

 

Language of the course: English

Maximum attendees: 20 p.
Registration is definitive after payment of the invoice.
If you are eligible for funding KMO portefeuille, you can apply.

 

Fee: 1.700 EUR (ex. VAT)

Customer of Cegeka: 1.550 EUR (ex. VAT)
Date: 25 & 26 June, 2012

By cancellations less than 1 month before start of the course, we charge 150 eur administration cost.
By cancellations less than 1 week before start of the course, full cost will be charged.
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