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Transitioning to Agility

WEBINAR – Creating Effect Maps to manage Requirements (8/4)

August 4th — 11-12 pm PDT

Gojko Adzic is returning to illustrate how to create “Effect Maps” to manage requirements – he will walk us through a sample problem.
He will also answer some questions we didn’t have time to answer from the webinar “Effective Specifications for Agile Projects“.

1. Regulated environments/traceability

How do you sell Agile in an enterprise where audit department wants to have evidence for each change in requirements?
In a regulated industry, how do you do specs when the stories for the release are not defined at the start of the project?
What should system requirements look like when using Agile in an FDA-regulated industry?  When are they “done”?

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