Show Forty Six begins another two part interview with Ellen Gottesdiener on agile requirements, facilitation and other topics.  Ellen is the principle consultant and founder of EBG Consulting, an author, a public speaker and all around pundit.  Part two will be included in SPaMCAST 48.    

Ellen is the Principal Consultant of EBG Consulting, Ellen and EBG help business and technical teams get product requirements right so their projects start smart and deliver the right product at the right time. She is an agile coach and trainer with a passion about agile requirements, she works with large, complex products and helps teams elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals. Ellen is the author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger. Ellen writes articles, speaks, advises at industry conferences, and provides training seminars and mentoring to both traditional and agile clients.

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Web Site: http://www.ebgconsulting.com/
Email:  ellen@ebgconsulting.com


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The essay is titled "Does the End Justify the Means.”  The essay wrestles with thoughts on whether you should use any means possible to promote our ideas or process improvements.  If you do not want of listen, my opinion is that the journey is important.

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Next Software Process and Measurement Cast:
The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Robin Goldsmith on requirements and testing.  Robin"s interview is another two parter!    Requirements have been a vexing problem for Information Technology since dirt was young.  Can you afford to miss Robin's exposition on REAL requirements?

The interview in the Software Process and Measurement Cast 45 features part two of the interview with Mike Cohn.  Mike is the man when it come to Story Points and agile estimation.    

Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming. With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent magazine contributor and conference speaker, Mike is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He can be reached at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

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We have a guest essay on SPaMCAST 45.  The essay is an open letter from Gary Cone to Senators Obama and McCain on process improvement.  Guest essay reflects the opinions of Gary Cone and may or may not reflect the opinion of SPaMCAST or its editor.  Please feel free to respond to Gary at Gary.Cone@gpsqtc.com  or (586)412-9609.  In my opinion process improvement is good politics regardless of political affiliation or lack thereof.

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Next Software Process and Measurement Cast:
The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Ellen Gottesdiener.  Can you say agile requirements?