Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal Consultant, EBG Consulting, helps teams collaboratively explore requirements, shape their development processes, and plan their work. She is author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and contributing author to Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle (John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Her latest book is The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software and Business Teams Develop and Manage Requirements (GOAL/QPC, 2005).

Ellen has extensive experience working with business and software teams to successfully start up projects, define product requirements, and improve teamwork. Her industry career includes stints as a developer, analyst, trainer, project manager, and process leader. She presents seminars on requirements, facilitated workshops, retrospectives, and software inspections and peer reviews. She is a conference speaker and advisor for the Software Development conferences and the stickyminds.com Web site. She has authored numerous papers on software requirements, methods, and modeling, and she is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). She can be reached at ellen@ebgconsulting.com and http://www.ebgconsulting.com.