Robin Goldsmith

Robin Goldsmith

Robin F. Goldsmith is a subject expert for BABOK who works with business and systems professionals in requirements, quality assurance and testing, ROI, software acquisition and outsourcing, metrics, and project and process management and improvement.

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Robin Goldsmith's Talks
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You Need Real ROI to Make Decisions That Pay Off
Date    September 30, 2010
Time    91 min
This webinar explains how to determine right, responsible, and reliable REAL ROI that overcomes pitfalls while guiding you to decisions that pay off.
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BAseBOK-Business Analysis Should Employ (This) Body of Knowledge
Date    March 7, 2012
Time    72 min
In this webinar, Robin Goldsmith introduces BAseBOK, a different and more appropriate approach to business analysis that offers opportunities for delivering far greater value to businesses and business analysis.
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Overcoming Common User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Misconceptions
Date    October 1, 2013
Time    68 min
This eye-opening webinar reveals the flaws in common UAT beliefs and describes more appropriate models and methods that build user competence, confidence, and cooperation.
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BA and PMs Unite to Avoid Projects Destined to Fail
Date    November 4, 2014
Time    69 min
This webinar demonstrates how appropriate Business Analysis (BA) is essential for initiating successful projects.
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Proactive SQA Overcomes the Traffic Cop Mentality
Date    June 17, 2015
Time    62 min
In this webinar, you will learn the six functions Proactive SQA™ performs to produce high quality software from the start.
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Requirements are Simply Requirements, or Maybe Not
Date    May 11, 2016
Time    65 min
In this webinar, we will analyze conflicting requirements interpretations and describe how user stories and use cases fit into a more appropriate business requirements model.
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You Do Not Need No Stinking Test Cases?
Date    October 4, 2016
Time    77 min
In this webinar we will examine the essential elements of a test case, four keys to effective test cases, five different ways to view the same test, and advantageous alternative low-overhead test case formats.
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Writing the Right User Stories Right
Date    February 6, 2018
Time    93 min
This interactive session examines and gives guided practice on how to avoid common user story content pitfalls.
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Reconciling Product Owner (PO) and Business Analyst (BA) Roles
Date    October 17, 2019
Time    63 min
This webinar evaluates how both the PO and the BA can participate to mutual advantage and thereby enhance Agile project success.
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Write RIGHT Agile User Story Acceptance Tests
Date    January 23, 2020
Time    61 min
This webinar addresses both format and content for writing good user story acceptance criteria.
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Prevent Backlog Item Confusion for Better Outcomes
Date    October 28, 2020
Time    69 min
Learn why it's impossible to reliably prioritize and how to fix a backlog consisting of a mishmash of user stories, features, defects, tasks, themes, and the kitchen sink.
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You Need User Acceptance Tests (UATs) as well as User Story Acceptance Tests
Date    June 1, 2021
Time    63 min
In this webinar you will learn how to create true UATs that catch and prevent Agile’s well-known difficulties integrating multiple pieces of working code.
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Don’t Let Your Design Thinking Silver Bullet Be a Blank
Date    September 7, 2021
Time    44 min
Over-hyped design thinking can often mislead you. In this webinar, you will learn the secrets for delivering perfect, on-demand design innovation.
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Kiss Risk Lip Service Goodbye
Date    February 10, 2022
Time    58 min
In this webinar you will all the places risk analysis should be performed and how to perform it more effectively than our typically superficial (or absent) current efforts.
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Do Your Stakeholders Appreciate Being Managed?
Date    January 26, 2023
Time    57 min
Many projects rely on “stakeholder management” to control communications with stakeholders, including feedback. In this eye-opening interactive session, discover what should be stakeholder management’s objectives and how we might better accomplish them.
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Define Right Requirements for Acquiring COTS
Date    April 5, 2023
Time    64 min
Buying Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software is a common way to achieve computer processing capabilities quicker, cheaper, and with less risk than building it.  This important interactive presentation reveals the differences and gives guidance on defining requirements that make COTS acquisitions succeed.