Speaking Events

Course Announcements

Latest Publications

Prior Speaking Sightings

Visual Taste of our Work

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Speaking Events

Following are our currently scheduled 2012 public events:

Upcoming 2012 Events
Event Speaker Topic Date
New York City IIBA Chapter, New York City
Ellen Gottesdiener
“Collaboration Workshops: Discover, Plan and Prepare you Product Backlog” February 13, 2012

Agile and Beyond, Dearborn, MI


Ellen Gottesdiener

Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis: Deliver Value Via Structured Conversations March 10, 2012

CAI Webinar Mary Gorman "Agile Business Analysis" (register here) March 20, 2012

Palmetto PMI Chapter Symposium, Greenville, South Carolina Mary Gorman Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis; and Requirements by Collaboration April 10, 2012

Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference-East, Orlando, FL Sue Burk
Agile Requirements Exploration with Tester Collaboration April 16, 2012

Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference-East, Orlando, FL Sue Burk Test Scenarios for Data Centric Systems April 18, 2012

CAI Webinar Ellen Gottesdiener "Do the Right Things: Practical Guidance for Adapting Your Requirements Practices" (register here) April 24, 2012

Southern New England Project Management Conference, Hartford, CT Ellen Gottesdiener Products not Projects: Delivering Value with Product Roadmaps April 30, 2012

Mass Bay Project Management Institute Personal Development Day 2012, Waltham, MA Ellen Gottesdiener Products not Projects: Delivering Value with Product Roadmaps May 5, 2012

5th Annual Iowa Business Analysis Development Day (IBADD 2012), Des Moines, Iowa Ellen Gottesdiener


Keynote and track talk
May 11, 2012

IIBA Webinar Ellen Gottesdiener Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining, Planning, and Delivering Product Needs (register here)
May 14, 2012

Path to Agility, Columbus, OH Ellen Gottesdiener Collaborate for Value May 24, 2012

Business Analysis & Requirements Workshop (at Better Software/Agile Development Practices West), Las Vegas, NV Ellen Gottesdiener Chair and Presenter June 10-12, 2012

Agile Development Practices West, Las Vegas, NV Ellen Gottesdiener Collaboration Workshops June 13, 2012

Swiss Requirements Day Pre-Conference Training,
Zurich, Switzerland
Ellen Gottesdiener Accelerating Value with Agile Requirements June 19, 2012

Swiss Requirements Day, Zurich, Switzerland Ellen Gottesdiener Keynote: Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron June 20, 2012

Public Training at Cegeka, Leuven, Belgium Ellen Gottesdiener Agile Requirements: Collaborating to Define and Confirm Needs June 25-26, 2012

Agile Consortium Belgium Inner Circle, Brussels, Belgium Ellen Gottesdiener Stay tuned June 26, 2012

Project World/World Congress for Business Analysts (PW/WCBA), Orlando, FL Ellen Gottesdiener Tutorial: Agile Essentials: People, Planning, and Product Practices September 10, 2012

Project World/World Congress for Business Analysts (PW/WCBA), Orlando, FL Ellen Gottesdiener Collaborate for Value: Using Facilitated Sessions to Discover and Deliver Product Needs September 10, 2012

Project World/World Congress for Business Analysts (PW/WCBA), Orlando, FL Ellen Gottesdiener Products Not Projects: Delivering Value with Product Roadmaps September 11, 2012

Agile Testing BDD eXchange, New York, NY Ellen Gottesdiener Stay tuned October 1, 2012

Building Business Capability: Accelerating Value with Agile Business Analysis Ellen Gottesdiener
Mary Gorman
Stay tuned October 29, 2012

Agile Development Practices/Better Software East, Orlando, FL Ellen Gottesdiener Stay tuned November 5-8, 2012

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Course Announcements

We are pleased to announce a new course offering!
 Acceptance Testing: Elicit and Validate Requirements for Success instructor-led classroom

*** instructor-led classroom is live, face-to-face training in which students and instructor gather at the same time and in the same location.


Build skills in identifying and specifying acceptance tests while eliciting requirements.  
For more information on all our training and learning, click here

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Latest Publications

Visit Success with Requirements, our monthly eNewsletter. Archives are available by most recent publication date. Visit archives. To sign up, click here

EBG Consulting In the Media:

Agile and the New Business Analyst Manifesto" Bridging the Gap, July 2011

Agile Retrospectives Interview

Agile Requirements Interview with Mary Gorman

Agile Analysis Interview with Mary Gorman, August 2011

For more publications, click here

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Prior Speaking Sightings

Event Speaker Topic Date
DAMA New York


Sue Burk


“Business Analysis for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence”
January 20, 2011


ProductCamp Boston


Ellen Gottesdiener

Agile Requirements April 2, 2011

IIBA Buffalo NY USA Chapter Sue Burk Time for Good Behavior: Use Cases, User Stories and Scenarios April 5, 2011

IT Metrics and Productivity Institute (ITMPI) Webinar Series 2011 Ellen Gottesdiener
“Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron” webinar (register here) April 6, 2011

Quality Engineered Software and Testing Conference (QUEST 2011) Ellen Gottesdiener Requirements Exploration with Tester Collaboration April 7, 2011

ProjectWorld*Business Analyst World Sue Burk Two Workshops: (“It’s Never Too Soon: Optimizing Value with User Acceptance Tests”and “Business Rules: A Round Trip Journey on the Road to Success”) and Presentation: “Nonfunctional Requirements: The Forgotten Needs” May 16-19, 2011

IT Metrics and Productivity Institute (ITMPI) Webinar Series 2011 Mary Gorman



“Sharing the Secret Sauce: Lessons from a Business Analysis Mentor” webinar (register here)

May 26, 2011

The Path to Agility, Columbus, Ohio Ellen Gottesdiener Agile Requirements May 26, 2011

IIBA Webinar (registration info to be posted soon) Ellen Gottesdiener Nonfunctional Requirements: Forgotten, Neglected, Misunderstood (register here) June 1, 2011

DAMA New England/TDWI Boston Sue Burk Business Analysis for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence June 2, 2011

Better Software & Agile Development Practices West (co-located conferences) Ellen Gottesdiener Business Analysis Workshop (Chair, Facilitator, Presenter)
And Agile Development Practices presentation
June 6-7, 2011

IIBA New Jersey Chapter, Jersey City, New Jersey Ellen Gottesdiener "Collaborate to Deliver Value: Requirements Practices that Work" June 14, 2011

Cegeka ICT Diensten: Brussels, Belgium Public offering Ellen Gottesdiener Agile Requirements: Collaborating to Define and Confirm Needs (public offering) June 27-28, 2011

Agile 2011,
Salt Lake City, Utah
Ellen Gottesdiener & Mary Gorman Three Workshops on collaborative agile requirements practices, eliciting business rules, and exploring agile requirements with tester collaboration August 8-11, 2011

IIBA Webinar (registration info to be posted soon) Mary Gorman Business Rules and Data Requirements: Analyzing in Tandem for Success September 8, 2011

Boston Chapter of the IIBA Sue Burk Business Analysis for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence September 8, 2011

Max Train: Public Offering, Cincinnati, Ohio Sue Burk Roadmap to Successful Requirements: Comprehensive (blended eLearning) September 20-22, 2011

DREAM 2011: Dutch Requirements Engineering Conference, Ultrecht, The Netherlands Ellen Gottesdiener Keynote and Pre Conference Training: Accelerating Value with Agile Requirements September 22, 2011

ProjectWorld & World Congress for Business Analysts Ellen Gottesdiener Reduce Rampant Requirements Risks with Agile Practices October 4, 2011

Agile New England Ellen Gottesdiener Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis: Deliver Value Via Structured Conversations October 6, 2011

Agile NYC, New York City Ellen Gottesdiener Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis: Deliver Value Via Structured Conversations October 18, 2011

Max Train: Public Offering, Cincinnati, Ohio Mary Gorman Agile Requirements: Collaborating to Define and Confirm Needs (public offering) October 18-19, 2011

Max Train: Public Offering, Cincinnati, Ohio Mary Gorman Acceptance Testing: Elicit and Validate Requirements for Success October 20, 2011

ITMPI sponsored webinar Ellen Gottesdiener Agile Requirements by Collaboration: Making Smart Choices about What and When to Build October 20, 2011

BBC Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Ellen Gottesdiener & Mary Gorman Two track sessions and pre-conference training: Accelerating Value with Agile Business Analysis October 31-November 3, 2011

Agile Dev Practices & Better Software East, Orlando, Florida Ellen Gottesdiener Chair and presenter: BA + Requirements Workshops November 7-8, 2011

IIBA New Zealand Mary Gorman One day workshop:
The Product Partnership: Using Structured Conversations to Deliver Value
November 8, 2011

Agile Dev Practices & Better Software East, Orlando, Florida Ellen Gottesdiener Nonfunctional Requirements: Forgotten, Neglected, Misunderstood November 9, 2011

IIBA New Zealand Development Day 2011, New Zealand Mary Gorman Keynote: Today's Business Analyst: Learning, Adapting, Delivering Value and Conference session:
Business Rules and Data Requirements: Analyzing in Tandem for Success
November 9, 2011

Agile Dev Practices & Better Software East, Orlando, Florida Ellen Gottesdiener Keynote - Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron November 10, 2011

ProjectWorld & World Congress for Business Analysis, Orlando, Florida Ellen Gottesdiener Agile Planning and Analysis (Agile Summit Chair and presenter) November 14-16, 2011

IIBA Central Florida Chapters
Orlando, Florida
Ellen Gottesdiener Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis: Deliver Value Via Structured Conversations  November 15, 2011

Visual Taste of our Work

Scenes from EBG's instructor-led training

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


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