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IIBA Dallas Webinar: Enterprise Agile Requirements

November 21, 2013, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST

Virtually every enterprise today is somewhere on the journey of transitioning to agile development approaches. And most are struggling as they try to reconcile traditional business functions with agile development teams. It becomes even more challenging when you consider how to handle the realities of compliance and audit, business cases and funding, release management, program and portfolio management, just to name a few. How you deal with requirements impacts virtually every one of these areas and is central to how agile projects can be done successfully in the enterprise. Join us as we present an approach for requirements definition and management on enterprise agile projects. In this session we describe this approach in detail and show a real-world example of it being applied.
Learning Points

• Learn why traditional business functions are clashing with new agile development approaches
• Learn how requirements still have a critical role to play on enterprise agile projects
• Learn a practical approach for defining and managing enterprise agile requirements

Success with Agile Requirements: Challenges & Opportunities for Scaling Agile

November 21, 2013 2 PM EST
What are the agile requirements implications for products delivered “at scale”? What are key considerations for scaling requirements discovery when multiple business, customer, and technology stakeholders—often distributed in time and space—need to collaborate around requirements? Creating a shared understanding among such disparate groups and then pruning the backlog of potential product requirements that they discover is daunting—but doable.

Join Ellen Gottesdiener, frequent speaker and agile requirements leader, as she offers practical guidance on how to discover, manage, and deliver requirements on a large agile project. Ellen shares essential product and process practices that she has uses successfully with global clients, from small companies to worldwide operations. In addition, Tony Higgins of Blueprint will show how Blueprint’s Requirements Definition and Management solution supports large, distributed IT software projects using “agile at scale”.

Webinar attendees will:

• Gain an understanding of how scaling impacts agile requirements and analysis tips for working with requirements on scaled projects.
• Hear tried-and-true ways to counter the impact scaling has on agile requirements practices, including requirements management, documentation, and product planning.
• See how modern requirements definition and management applications can support “agile at scale.”