Live Webinar June 26th, 2012 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)
Presented by: Ellen Gottesdiener

Problems that result from an unclear, ambiguous, or inaccurate understanding of product scope can permeate and threaten your entire project. This is known as “scope creep”—the unrestrained expansion of requirements as the project proceeds.

Scope creep is often cited as a cause of excess costs, late delivery, and dissatisfied customers.

Yet discovering requirements is about gaining an ever‐growing understanding of them. So isn’t scope creep to be expected? Can—and should—you identify and limit the scope of a product’s requirements?

Join Ellen Gottesdiener, author, facilitator, practitioner, and trainer, as she shares tools and techniques for efficiently and effectively identifying and managing product scope. Learn how you can provide real value to your projects by reducing the risks of scope creep while establishing clear project focus.

NOTE: There will be EBG Giveaways during the live webinar

Three winners will receive a book of Ellen’s via a drawing from live attendees. The books to be given away are:

1. Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysisby Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman (EBG Consulting, Inc., 2012)
2. The Software Requirements Memory Jogger TM: A Pocket Guide to Help Software and Business Teams Develop and Manage Requirements (GOAL/QPC, 2005)
3. Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs(Addison‐Wesley, 2002)

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Ellen Gottesdiener, (LinkedIn profile @ellengott), is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker and expert in agile product management practices, product envisioning and roadmapping, business analysis and requirements, retrospectives, and collaboration. As founder of is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, she works with global clients and speaks at numerous numerous industry conferences. Ellen has authored of two acclaimed books: Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger TM. – Ellen has recently co-authored (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices,Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysis.

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