News & Events
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 | |||
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
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:
“What do Users Want" Computerworld, June 2006
Sticky ToolLook Interview, May, 2006
Application Development Trends, December, 2005
For more publications, click here
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
