This concisely written book explains why it is important to define high-quality requirements and gives you tools and techniques for developing and managing requirements. Originally published as a 3.5 X 5.5-inch wire-bound booklet, strong demand brought forth the publication of this larger 5 x 7 inch; version. Covered in this best selling publication are the essentials of requirements development & management: how to elicit, prioritize and document requirements how to create useful models for analyzing requirements ways to verify and validate requirements techniques for adapting requirements practices how to manage requirements throughout the project. The book helps stakeholders including analysts, project managers, and team facilitators, at all organizational levels learn and apply the tools, methods and processes needed to attain high-quality software requirements. It's a valuable tool as a stand-alone resource, training reference book and handy perform
Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal Consultant and Founder of EBG Consulting, Inc., is a requirements expert who works with both traditional and agile teams to help them deliver the right product at the right time.
Her first book, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002) describes how to use multiple models to elicit requirements in collaborative.
Her second book, The Software Requirements Memory Jogger (GOAL/QPC, 2005) is the go to industry guide for requirements good practices.
Ellen is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and has extensive experience as a professional workshop facilitator, focusing on helping projects start smart through facilitated workshops.
Ellen is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), an agile coach, and agile trainer with a passion about agile requirements. She works with large, complex products and helps teams elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals.
She is an expert reviewer for the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), a member of the IIBA Endorsed Education Provider committee, and advisor for several industry conferences.
Ellen writes articles for numerous online and print journals, has contributed to chapters to several books and speaks at a variety of conferences (e.g., Agile 20xx, Agile Development Practices, IEEE Requirements Engineering, ProjectSummit/Business Analysis World, Project World & World Congress for Business Analysis, Software Development Best Practices).
Ellen is a practitioner who works on client projects and also delivers training seminars.
Before founding EBG, Ellen spent 13 years as a manager, team leader, developer, and trainer with a major insurance and financial services organization.
GOAL/QPC
Since 1995 GOAL/QPC has been a leader in the world of Quality Management. GOAL/QPC's concisely written pocket guides, known as Memory Joggers, enable people at all organizational levels to learn and apply tools, methods and processes that are critically needed to attain world-class organizational excellence. With over 12M copies in circulation, our customers value our Memory Joggers as stand-alone learning resources or for use in a training environment. Made popular with our trademark format of "What is it, What does it do, How do I do it?" , published in a pocket sized spiral binding, users can quickly find and acquire knowledge and insight from the leading edge book content.
