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Speaking Events

Following are our currently scheduled 2008 public events:

Topic Speaker Event Date
Agile Business Analysis Ellen Gottesdiener Central Indiana IIBA Chapter February, 2008

Unlocking the IIBA BABOK™: Analysis Modeling across the KAs Mary Gorman ProjectWorld, BusinessAnalystWorld, Toronto, Canada April 14-19, 2008
Business Rules: A Round Trip Journey on the Road to Success      
Integrating Interface Analysis into Your Project: Just-Enough, Just-in-Time      

Essential Data Modeling: Business Analysts Driving Data Requirements Mary Gorman Business Analyst World/Project Summit,  King of Prussia, Pennsylvania April 28-May 1, 2008
Business Rules: A Round Trip Journey on the Road to Success      
Get the Right Stuff, Fast: Jogging with the User Requirements Roadmap  Paul Reed ProjectWorld/World Congress for Business Analysts, San Diego, CA June 24-27, 2008
Mis-Use Cases: Top 10 Abuses of Use Cases



Requirements-Driven Workshops for Large Agile Projects: Essentials for Product, Release, and Iteration Planning (tutorial) Ellen Gottesdiener Agile Development 2008, Toronto, Canada August 4-8, 2008
Successful Agile Transitions: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Discover What Works      
Do the Right Things: Adapting Practices for Agile Projects      
2007 Events
Do the Right Things: Practical Guidance for Adapting Requirements Practices Ellen Gottesdiener The Minneapolis Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) January 2007

Get the Right Stuff, Fast: Jogging with the User Requirements Roadmap Mary Gorman Business Analyst World/ProjectWorld–Toronto, Canada March 2007
Essential Data Modeling      
Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle for Navigating Requirements      

Start Smart with Scope Modeling: Leveraging the Requirement Roadmap and the IIBA BABOK Mary Gorman The Rhode Island Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) May 2007

Practical Techniques to Elicit Effective Requirements while Building Trust Ellen Gottesdiener Free Webinar!  Access it now May 2007

Requirements Workshops: Essentials for Planning, Design, and Facilitation Ellen Gottesdiener ProjectWorld & The World Congress for Business Analysts-Boston, MA. June 2007
Business Modeling: Setting a Context for Requirements      

Get the Right Stuff, Fast: Jogging with the User Requirements Roadmap Mary Gorman ProjectWorld & The World Congress for Business Analysts-Boston, MA. June 2007
Business Rules: Do You Know What You're Missing      

Agile Requirements Workshops Ellen Gottesdiener Agile Development Conference-Washington, D.C. August 2007

Get the Right Stuff, Fast Ellen Gottesdiener Software Development Best Practices-Boston, MA. September 2007
Requirements by Collaboration      
Do the Right Things      

Event Modeling Mary Gorman Software Development Best Practices-Boston, MA. September 2007
Integrating Interface Analysis Into Your Project      
Business Rules      

Essential Data Modeling Mary Gorman Project Summit/Business Analyst World-Boston, MA. October 2007
 Requirements Workshops      

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Course Announcements

We are pleased to announce our latest offering!

 Agile Requirements: Collaborating to Define and Confirm Needs

This intensive, hands-on training builds skills in the agile method of developing requirements, the basis for delivering business value to customers on agile projects.

Other more recent additions to our curriculum:


 Business Rules: A Roundtrip Journey on the Road to Success


In-depth training on eliciting, specifying and managing business rules which define, constrain, or enable the behavior of software or business processes.  

 Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle for Navigating Requirements


Learn how to use events to identify and track the business behavior of your business process and system. Save time and money using events to scope your project, clarify boundaries, and trace iterations. 

For more information on all our training and learning, click here

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Latest Publications

Our monthly eNewsletter, Success with Requirements, is now available! To sign up, click here

Most recent articles published on requirements are here

Ellen Gottesdiener (Principal Consultant and President of EBG Consulting) In the Media:

CIO Magazine

TechTarget

What do Users Want" Computerworld, June 2006

Sticky ToolLook Interview, May, 2006

Application Development Trends, December, 2005

Computerworld, August, 2005

For more publications, click here

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Prior Speaking Sightings

Speaker Event When
Ellen Gottesdiener The Indianapolis Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Winter, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener & Mary Gorman ProjectWorld & The World Congress for Business Analysts-Boston, MA. Winter, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener Project Summit/Business Analyst World-Chicago Winter, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener & Mary Gorman Software Development Best Practices-Boston Fall, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener 14th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) International Requirements Engineering Conference Fall, 2006
Mary Gorman Project Summit/Business Analyst World-Boston Fall, 2006
Mary Gorman The Hartford Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Fall, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener Agile Development Conference Summer, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener Cincinnati Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Summer, 2006
Mary Gorman The New Zealand (Auckland) Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Summer, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener Indiana Quality Assurance Association Summer, 2006
Mary Gorman Business Analyst World/Project Summit–Toronto, Canada Spring, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener Project Summit/Business Analyst World-D.C. Spring, 2006
Ellen Gottesdiener The Philadelphia Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Spring 2006
Mary Gorman Software Development West Spring, 2006

Visual Taste of our Work

Scenes (3 minute video) from EBG's instructor-led training and conference training sessions 

Scenes from Agile Development Conference 2005 - Open Space session facilitated by Ellen


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