Agile Requirements Workshops: Collaborating to the Rhythm of the Agile Beat

On agile projects, planning and requirements elaboration converge. Requirements unfold within the context of the rhythm of agile planning: product, release, and iteration (or sprint). Collaborative workshops provide an effective venue for agile teams to work together transparently to make the complex decisions about what to build, and when.

You hold different kinds of requirements workshops (or planning meetings) at different points in your project. These workshops, which incorporate requirements exploration as well as allocation, are the product roadmapping workshop, release planning workshop, iteration planning workshop.

In this presentation, you will learn about calibrating your requirements focus based on the applicable workshop: product roadmapping workshops (to explore and allocate the big‐view of requirements and map out a strategy for the entire product), release planning workshops (to focus on a smaller time horizon to get a pre‐view of requirements for the next release), and iteration planning workshops (to explore and plan for a small, concise set of requirements for the immediate iteration, the nowview).

Learn about these useful workshops, enabling agile teams to make smart choices in a manner that yields a healthy project community sharing focus, values, and trust.

Bio

Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal Consultant and Founder of EBG Consulting, helps business and technical teams build a shared understanding of product needs so that they deliver value at the right time. Ellen is an internationally recognized trainer, facilitator, speaker, and expert on collaborative requirements development.

Author of two acclaimed books, Ellen delivers training, facilitation, and consulting services globally, speaks at industry conferences, writes articles and tweets, and is an IIBA® (BABOK®) expert reviewer and contributor. As an agile coach and trainer, Ellen has a passion for agile requirements. She works with large, complex products and helps elicit just enough requirements to achieve goals.

Ellen’s free eNewsletter Success with Requirements offers practical guidance and news, and EBG’s website provides a variety of useful practitioner resources. Contact Ellen at ellen@ebgconsulting.com, follow her tweets at www.twitter.com/ellengott and her blog at http://ebgconsulting.com/blog/