Scope Creep: Friend or Foe?
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Scope creep is often cited as a cause of excess costs, late delivery, dissatisfied customers, frustrated business sponsors, stressed teams, including business analysts! Yet discovering requirements is about gaining an ever-growing understanding of them. So isn’t scope creep to be expected? And what can you do about it?.
Join Mary Gorman to explore effective analysis techniques you can use-- whether you are using traditional or agile development practices-- to holistically define scope while creatively and collaboratively engaging your stakeholders.
Presenter Mary Gorman, a recognized leader in business analysis and requirements, is Vice President of Quality & Delivery at EBG Consulting, Inc. Mary coaches product teams and facilitates discovery workshops, and she trains business, customer, and technology stakeholders in collaborative practices essential for defining high-value products. Mary speaks at industry conferences and writes for the Agile, business analysis, and project management communities. She is a Certified Business Analysis Professional and Certified Scrum Master. A key contributor to the business analysis profession across the IIBA and PMI communities, Mary helped develop the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (versions 1.6 and 2.0) and the IIBA and PMI business analysis certification exams. Mary is co-author with Ellen Gottesdiener of the recently released book Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis.
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