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We offer you our e-newsletter, Success with Requirements, as well as the articles below, courtesy of these publishers to provide you with practical techniques and focused insights into how to get the right stuff, fast, collaborate effectively, and improve on your project productivity and quality.

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

Offer resources to help you become more effective

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Requirements

“Savvy Shopping for COTS Software,” StickyMinds (June, 2008)

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

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

"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)

"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)

"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

“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”, The Rational Edge, (July, 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

"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

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

“Grating Expectations Computerworld”, Computerworld, (August, 2005) – (Ellen referenced)

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

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

“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)