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ARTICLE: Adapting Your Requirements Practices - Part 2 of 2
Author(s): Ellen Gottesdiener
Summary: In part 1 of this article (published as a weekly column on May 22), Ellen Gottesdiener discussed the need to adapt your requirements practices to your product and project. In part 2, she explores additional issues for tailoring requirements development and management.

Date Posted: Jun 2, 2006
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This is Free Content ARTICLE: Requirements Workshops: Collaborating to Explore User Requirements
Author(s): Ellen Gottesdiener
Summary: There’s no standard formula for requirements workshops. Each project, business situation, and group of people will combine to make each workshop unique. Preparing for the requirements workshop requires collaboration. It permits you to tap into the collective wisdom of all of the project stakeholders. In your workshops, participants are active, engaged, committed, and task-oriented. A well-run workshop builds trust and mutual understanding among all the participants. Workshops are not new, but are proven best practices in software development. They can go a long way not only in product delivery, but also in building a “jelled” team.

Date Posted: Mar 8, 2002

This is Free Content ARTICLE: Steps for Integrating Reviews into Collaborative Workshops
Author(s): Ellen Gottesdiener
Summary: Reviews can be effectively integrated in your workshops, helping participants to create higher quality deliverables. Integrating reviews in your requirements workshops also helps participants to more fully explore how requirements relate to each other. This brief document provides you with a list of steps to employ before, during, and after a collaborative workshop to make best use of reviews.

Date Posted: Feb 21, 2001

This is Free Content ARTICLE: Integrating Reviews into the Requirements Phase
Author(s): Ellen Gottesdiener
Summary: A brief overview of how to integrate reviews into your requirements process while iteratively delivering your requirements. A figure is provided as an example. Different requirements models are shown as being created in stages and various review types are used to check their quality.

Date Posted: Feb 21, 2001

This is Free Content ARTICLE: Reviews, Inspections, and Walkthroughs
Author(s): Ellen Gottesdiener
Summary: A brief overview to reviews, inspections, and walkthroughs--an essential technique to increase quality and enhance team collaboration.

Date Posted: Feb 21, 2001

This is Free Content BOOK: The Software Requirements Memory Jogger    
Author: Ellen Gottesdiener

Pages: 360   Published: 2005

Description: Ellen Gottesdiener's "Software Requirements Memory Jogger" contains an incredible wealth of clearly-presented requirements information in a small-format book. This inch-thick ...More

This is Free Content BOOK: Requirements by Collaboration    
Author: Ellen Gottesdiener

Pages: 368   Published: 2002

Description: "I spend much time helping organizations capture requirements and even more time helping them recover from not capturing requirements. Many of them have gone through some moti...More

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COLUMN: Prioritization Puzzles: Practices for Prioritizing Your Product Requirements
Author(s): Ellen Gottesdiener
Summary: Not all requirements are created equal, so to make smart choices about which product requirements you should explore and implement—or whether you should delve into them at all—you need to prioritize them. Many teams do not prioritize properly and waste time specifying requirements that are never delivered. Why spend time and energy on requirements you won't use? In this week's column, Ellen Gottesdiener answers the question by detailing how and when requirements should be dealt with.

Date Posted: Aug 7, 2007
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COLUMN: Adapting Your Requirements Practices
Author(s): Ellen Gottesdiener
Summary: Should your requirements practices embrace the change-driven approach of agile methods--lightweight models, minimal documentation, and little process? Or should you take a risk-driven approach--robust models, careful validation, and rich documentation? In this two-part weekly column, Ellen Gottesdiener explains that you should tailor your requirements practices to your project and product.

Date Posted: May 18, 2006
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This Content is Accessible by PowerPass UsersCONFERENCE MATERIALS: Requirements Workshops: What, Why, and How
Author(s): Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting, Inc.
Summary: There’s no standard formula for requirements workshops. Each project, business situation, and group of people will combine to make each workshop unique. Preparing for the requirements workshop requires collaboration. It permits you to tap into the collective wisdom of all of the project stakeholders. In your workshops, participants are active, engaged, committed and task oriented. A well-run workshop builds trust and mutual understand among all the participants. Workshops are not new, but are proven best practices in software development. They can go a long way not only in product delivery, but also in building a “jelled” team.
Conference: SM/ASM 2002

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