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Agile projects compel you to reconsider and redefine traditional requirements practices. There are agile benefits to leverage and pitfalls to avoid. In this talk, learn what to consider—including team and product factors—when you adapting your approach. You’ll discover agile requirements practices that promote and enhance of trust, what practices to calibrate, and the business analysis work needed by your project. Join us to explore ways to adapt and leverage your requirements practices to increase product quality and trust—while delivering business value on your agile project.

In this talk, Ellen will present a gradient of requirements practices ranging from traditional to agile. Based on real-world stories about teams that have used these practices, you’ll learn what you should consider when adapting (or abandoning) them on your project. You’ll learn about requirements practices that build and sustain three types of trust: contractual, communication, and competency.

If you’re from a traditional environment, you’ll gain a new understanding of the context for adapting your requirements practices to agile projects. If you’re an agile practitioner, you’ll hear new ideas for ways you can lighten, tighten or incorporate a subset of traditional practices to mitigate the risks of missing, erroneous or conflicting requirements. Either way, you’ll learn ways to adapt requirements practices to fit various agile project situations so that you can do the right things for your project.