10/13/15

Ellen Gottesdiener

Talk: Innovate and Invigorate Your Agile Discovery

Agile product discovery is essential for continuous delivery of high-quality solutions. At the same time, discovery is also one of the most challenging aspects of any project. A wide range of stakeholders must collaboratively explore and agree on inventive and valuable product requirements. To do this, many agile teams rely on user stories, and perhaps a few other techniques, such as story maps and personas. While these are a good start, they are often insufficient for the complex products most teams wrestle with today. Ellen reaches beyond discovery-as-usual to highlight creative ways to enlighten and energize your agile product discovery.

Ellen Gottesdiener is an internationally recognized leader in the convergence of agile + requirements + product management + project management. Ellen is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, which helps organizations adapt how they collaborate to improve business outcomes.

Ellen’s passion is helping people use modern product requirements practices to build valued products and great teams. She provides training, coaching, and facilitates discovery and planning workshops across diverse industries, including education, energy, financial services, pharmaceutical, software, transportation, and telecommunications.

Ellen is a world-renowned writer, speaker, and presenter. Her most recent book, co-authored with Mary Gorman, is Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis. Ellen is author of two other acclaimed books: Requirements by Collaboration and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger.