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• Workshop by Design Canvas: Making Collaboration Work
• Lessons Learned in Becoming a Product-Centric Organization
• Answer This Question: “What is Your Product?”
• Modern Product Management on the Modern Agile Show
• How to Make Product Decisions With Transparency and Trust
• Women in Agile Podcast Highlights
• What Is Your Product?
• Retrospectives Make Better Product Outcomes
• Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product’s Core Requirements
• Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product: Getting Started

Agile

• "Using Structured Conversations to Discovery Your MVP," InfoQ (2017)
• "Streamline Your Agile Requirements by Avoiding Bloated Backlogs," Agile Connection (2017)
• "Collaborative and Creative Business Analysis," PMI Global Congress Proceedings
• "It's Time to Put Value in the Driver's Seat," ProjectTimes, (June 2014)
• "Exploring Product Options to Arrive at the Right Requirements," BA/PM Times, (February 2014)
• "Turning Competing Stakeholders into Collaborating Product Partners," BA/PM Times, (December 2013)
• "Discover to Deliver Author Q&A ," InfoQ, (October 2013)
• "Avoiding too many user stories in software development," TechTarget, (October 2013)
• "The risks of Agile software development: Overcoming feature creep," TechTarget, (August 2013)
• "What's Down with Agile Documentation?," Project Times, (August 2013)
• "Straight Dope on Scope," Projects At Work, (July 2013)
• "Straight Dope on Scope, Part 2," Projects At Work, (July 2013)
• "Strengthen Your Discovery Muscle," Better Software, (May/June 2013)
• "Is 'Agile software documentation' an oxymoron?," TechTarget, (May 2013)
• "Agile process: Structured Conversations Build Business-Ready software," TechTarget, (April 2013)
• "Who Should Drive Agile Planning and Software Requirements Analysis?," TechTarget, (April 2013)
• "Secrets of Successful Agile Analysis: How to Make Your Business Analysis Skills Indispensable," Bridging the Gap, (February 11, 2013)
• "A Quick Dip into Discover to Deliver," EBG Consulting Blog, (October 2012)
• "Harvesting Stakeholder Perspectives to Organize Your Backlog," Better Software, July/August 2011, (originally posted on StickyMinds January 2011)
• "It's the Goal, Not the Role: The Value of Business Analysis in Scrum," StickyMinds, (June 28, 2011)
• "Agile Planning and Analysis: Synchronizing to Deliver Value," Better Software, (May/June 2011)
• "Are Your Software Development Practices Jumping the Shark?," SD Times, (April 2011)
• "Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron," Agile Record, Issue 6, (April 2011)
• "How to Manage User Stories in Your Agile Development Projects," TechTarget (December 2010)
• "Slicing Requirements For Agile Success," Better Software, Feature (August 2010)
• "Playing at Work: Games that Delivery Value," Sticky Minds, (August 2010)
• "Experts Take on Business Analysis and Agile," (Interview including Ellen Gottesdiener), Modern Analyst (March 2010)
• "Managing Your Analysis Debt," Better Software (November 2009)
• "A View to Agile Requirements," Modern Analyst (November 2009)
• "Agile Requirements by Collaboration: Making Smart Choices about What and When to Build," InformIT (August 2009)
• "Agile Business Analysis in Flow: The Work of the Agile Analyst (Part 2), Modern Analyst (August 2009)
• "How Agile Practices Reduce Requirements Risk," Better Software (July/August 2009)
• "Agile Business Analysis in Flow: The Work of the Agile Analyst (Part 1)," Modern Analyst (May 2009)
• "What's Going Right Around Here? Using AI to Improve Your Agile Requirements Process," StickyMinds (March 2009)
• "The Agile Analyst: Eyes for Waste," Modern Analyst (January 2009)