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Success with Requirements

This is EBG Consulting's free, monthly electronic newsletter. We write Success with Requirements to help you get the right requirements so your projects start smart and deliver the right product at the right time.
Each month we:

Address issues important to you as practitioners

Share our latest learning from our client work

Offer tips, techniques and tools for requirements development & management and collaboration

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Agile

"Experts Take on Business Analysis and Agile," (Interview including Ellen Gottesdiener), Modern Analyst (March, 2010)

"Managing Your Analysis Debt," Better Software (November, 2009)

"A View to Agile Requirements," Modern Analyst (November, 2009)

"Easing the Transition to Agile", Success with Requirements, Vol 3. No.9(2009)

"Agile Requirements by Collaboration: Making Smart Choices about What and When to Build," InformIT (August, 2009)

"Agile Business Analysis in Flow: The Work of the Agile Analyst (Part 2), Modern Analyst (August, 2009)

"How Agile Practices Reduce Requirements Risk," Better Software (July/August, 2009)

"Agile Business Analysis in Flow: The Work of the Agile Analyst (Part 1)," Modern Analyst (May, 2009)

"What's Going Right Around Here? Using AI to Improve Your Agile Requirements Process," StickyMinds (March, 2009)

"The Agile Analyst: Eyes for Waste," Modern Analyst (January, 2009)

"Agile Business Analysis: Q+A, Part IV", Success with Requirements, Vol 3. No.5(2009)

"Agile Business Analysis: Q+A, Part III", Success with Requirements, Vol 3. No.4(2009)

"Agile Business Analysis: Q+A, Part II", Success with Requirements, Vol 3. No.3(2009)

"Agile Business Analysis: Q+A, Part I", Success with Requirements, Vol 3. No.2(2009)

"Agile Requirements, In Context", Success with Requirements, Vol 2. No.1(2008)

"Agile development spawns requirements, management changes", SearchSoftwareQuality'sTechTarget, February, 2008 (Ellen Gottesdiener of EBG is quoted in this article; note that registration to the site may be required to read the article)

"Requirements Practices on Agile Projects", Success with Requirements, Vol 2. No. 8(2007)

"YANGI Your Requirements Documentation", Success with Requirements, Vol 1. No.9(2007)

"Adapting your Requirements Practices" (Part I) - StickyMinds original column, Ellen Gottesdiener, Stickyminds.com

"Adapting your Requirements Practices" (Part II) - StickyMinds original column, Ellen Gottesdiener, Stickyminds.com

"Team Retrospectives - for Better Iteration Assessment", The Rational Edge, (April, 2003)

Requirements

"The Whos and Wheres of Stakeholder Requirements," StickyMinds (May, 2009)

"Scope Keep, Not Scope Creep," StickyMinds (December, 2008)

"Transitioning from Analysis to Design," StickyMinds (December, 2008)

"Business Rules and Data Requirements: Keeping Both Oars in the Water," StickyMinds (October, 2008)

"Savvy Shopping for COTS Software," StickyMinds (June, 2008)

"Building Trust with Good Requirements Practices, Part 2", Success with Requirements, Vol. 2, No. 5(2008).

"Good Practices for Developing User Requirements," Crosstalk (March, 2008)

"Building Trust with Good Requirements Practices, Part 1", Success with Requirements, Vol. 2, No. 3(2008)

"Investing in Interface Analysis," Success with Requirements, Vol. 2, No. 2(2008)

"Ready, Fire, Aim: How Timely Interface Analysis Reduces Risk in Software Projects," StickyMinds Original (November, 2007).

"Prioritization Puzzles: Practices for Prioritizing Your Product Requirements" StickyMinds.com (August, 2007)

"Teasing Out the Hairball with Separation of Concerns (or "What Doesn't Belong?"), Success with Requirements, Vol. 1, No. 5(2007)

"Five Things IT Managers Should Know About Software Requirements", CIO Magazine, March, 2007 (Ellen Gottesdiener of EBG covered on pages 2 and 3 of this report by Esther Schindler)

"Using models to understand users' needs" TechTarget (February, 2007)

"Prioritizing Requirements to Save Time and Money," Success with Requirements, Vol. 1, No. 10(2007).

"Success with Stakeholders", Success with Requirements, Vol. 1, No. 3 (March 2007)

"Events to the Rescue", StickyMinds original column, Mary Gorman, Stickyminds.com (October, 2006)

"A Word to the Wise: Piecing Requirements" Sticky ToolLook Interview with Ellen Gottesdiener, StickyMinds, (May, 2006)

"Debating Use Cases and Requirements" Review of Panel Discussion including Ellen Gottesdiener, IBM/Rational website, (August, 2002)

"Top Ten Ways Project Teams Misuse Use Cases -- and How to Correct Them - Part II: Eliciting and Modeling Use Cases: Part II", The Rational Edge, (July, 2002)

"Top Ten Ways Project Teams Misuse Use Cases -- and How to Correct Them - Part II: Eliciting and Modeling Use Cases: Part I", The Rational Edge, (June, 2002)

"Get the Right Stuff, Fast", review of Ellen Gottesdiener Software Development Conference Tutorial, SD West, Software Development Magazine, (April, 2002)

"Top Ten Ways Project Teams Misuse Use Cases -- and How to Correct Them - Part I: Content and Style Issues", The Rational Edge, (June, 2002)

"Use Cases: Best Practices", IBM/Rational Software Whitepaper, (June, 2003)

"Requirements Exploration and Modeling", Software Testing & Quality Engineering, (May/June, 2002)

"UML Hits the Street", Application Development Trends, (September, 2001) (Ellen referenced)

"Turning Rules into Requirements", Application Development Trends, (June, 2001)

"Abuse Case Guidelines" (2001)

"Business Rules Rule", Telelogic Online Newsletter, (April, 2000)

"Capturing Business Rules", Software Development Magazine, (December, 1999)

"The Value of Standardization of Business Rules", Object Magazine, (March, 1998)

"Best Policy: Consistency", Information Week, (December, 1997)

"Business Rules Show Power, Promise", Application Development Trends, (March, 1997)

Facilitated Workshops

"Amplifying Collaboration with Guerilla Facilitation", StickyMinds.com, June 7, 2010

"Dealing with Difficult Behavior in Your Workshops", Vol. 3, No.6(2009)

"Guerrilla Facilitation", Success with Requirements, Vol. 2, No.10 (2008)

"Collaboration Conundrum: Getting Them to Show Up", Success with Requirements, Vol. 1, No. 4 (2007)

"Workshops Work", The Bridge (B2T), (Spring, 2006)

"Requirements by Collaboration: Getting it Right the First Time", IEEE Software, (March/April, 2003)

"Requirements Workshops: Collaborating to Explore User Requirements", Sticky Minds website, (February, 2003)

"Eliciting Rules in Workshops-Part 2", Business Rules Journal, (January, 2003)

"Wall to Wall Tools", Software Testing & Quality Engineering, (November/December, 2002)

"Eliciting Business Rules in Workshops-Part 1", Business Rules Journal, (November, 2002)

"Specifying Requirements with a Wall of Wonder", The Rational Edge, (November, 2001)

"Collaborate for Quality", Software Testing & Quality Engineering, (March/April, 2001)

"Facilitated Workshops in Software Development Projects", Software Management Conference Proceedings, (February, 2001)

"Decide How to Decide: A Collaboration Pattern", Software Development Magazine, (January, 2001)

"Twelve Principles for Modeling Rules in Workshops", Database Newsletter, (March/April, 1999)

"Decoding Business Needs with Workshops", Software Development Magazine, (December, 1999)

"Harvesting Business Rules in Workshops", DataToKnowledge Newsletter, (January/February, 1997)

"Facilitated Rule Breaking", Database Programming & Design, (September, 1996)

People, Process & Teams

"Appreciation: Learning What Works: What's Going Right Around Here?", Success with Requirements, Vol. 2, No. 11(2008).

"Decisions, Decisions", Success with Requirements, Vol. 2, No. 6(2008).

"You Know When It's Not There: How Trust Enables and Enhances Collaboration", Cutter Journal, Vol. 20, No. 8 (August, 2007)

"Slow Down to Speed Up", Success with Requirements, Vol. 1, No. 6(2007).

"Retrospectives: Harvesting the Wisdom of Teams", Neuland Newsletter, (February, 2005)

"Grating Expectations Computerworld", Computerworld, (August, 2005) (Ellen referenced)

"Reviews-Inspections-Walkthroughs: An Overview", Sticky Minds website, (February, 2001)

"Integrating Reviews into the Requirements Phase", Sticky Minds website, (February, 2001)

"Story contribution called "The Project to End All Projects" in the Tales of Terror", Software Development Magazine, (October, 2000)

"Object-Oriented Methodologies: Process & Product Patterns", Component Strategies, (November, 1998)

"RAD Realities: Beyond the Hype to How RAD Really Works", Application Development Trends, (August, 1995)