The problems most companies have with software development are due to poor requirements rather than coding. Developers know how to code but the business requirements are most often incomplete and don’t effectively communicate the business needs. The lack of effective requirements gathering and writing leads to 82% of the software re-design and maintenance efforts causing companies to waste millions of dollars a year on ineffective software implementations and lost product to market opportunities (based on a study done by James Martin).

Surveys of Pierson Requirements Group’s customers have found that using Pierson’s training and implementing collaborative requirements techniques has lead them to a savings of 25 – 40% of time and cost over the entire project or 3 to 4 months out of a year long project. Pierson Requirements Group provides both on-site and virtual instructor led training classes. The next scheduled Requirements Gathering & Writing is September 22 – 24 and October 4 – 6. For more information, contact jmatthews@piersonrequirementsgroup.com or click on the link http://www.piersonrequirementsgroup.com/contact.php.

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Continuing this months theme of reading and sharing information from popular business blogs, I’ve looked up some blogs who talk about why it’s important and helpful to have blogs integrated into your business.

First off, it gets your voice and opinion out there. This way your customers can know what you are thinking and why yo do the things you do. But perhaps more importantly it gives your customers and followers a change to talk back to you.

With blogs and the ability to comment on them, customers and readers are able to let you know how they would rate their experience at your place of business or how they would like things to be done differently.

At Pierson Requirements Group, they have business analysis training who will enable you to know what to do with that kind of feedback. With an aim toward making sure your company is the best it can be, Pierson hold seminars and training sessions that show you how to take feedback, run it through your IT department, and make it into a solid plan.

Contact the customer service department at Pierson Requirements group to learn more about their methodology and business analyst training offered.

Last week’s blog outlined some popular online blogs that highlight tips and tools that can greatly help small business share helpful ideas without costing a penny.

This week another site shows 12 web tools that make the day to day operations easier and more streamlined. The applications talked about were:

VoxOX – An application for ‘wrangling’ your email, phone, and social media accounts to one place; LuckyCal – A calender integrating tool; Fonolo – An application that navigtes the phone trees of big companies cutting down your wait time; and many others including one for reducing your carbon footprint.

It’s important to understand the free and cheap resources available online when you are starting a business or even working with a well established company. Spending a little time on certain projects can yield a huge return in information and education. Everyone could use to save money and the world wide web is here to help you do it!

Pierson Requirements Group is a company aimed at getting your business started and/or helping your company run better. They too have great ways and ticks of the trade that they are willing to share with those who need them. Contact them today and see how they can help you with online and public seminars as well as business analyst training.

Keeping up with the great big growing world of business can be difficult but extremely beneficial. In an effort to help, there are several great blogs out there, other than this one of course, that can be extremely informative.

Today one small business blog talked about the fact that the writer feels as though the contributors of the google small business blog have no innovation. In addition to talking about the dos and don’ts of small business this blog was also discussing the rules of how to succeed  in social media. The tips are helpful and the exchange of information found on not only this but several other blogs makes them worth the sifting through of the world wide web worth the effort.

Another way to keep up is to make sure that your company is taking part in the social media boom. It is no longer enough to simply have a website, now you need a facebook group page, a twitter account, and I’m told a foursquare spot for people to ‘check in’ to.

Pierson Requirements Group wants to see comapnies grow to the greatest potential. that means that weather you are small and want to grow, medium and want to grow, or massive and want to maintain, Pierson can help.

With countless training aids and seminars Pierson Requirements Group can help first find the path you want to take and then help you find which steps to take and when.

On any level of business companies can benefit from additional analysis and training courses.

A great business analyst can come into your company and review your processes and modes of operation and not only identify what you could be doing better but they can also translate those goals into workable training solutions for your IT department.

This will enable your company to run more smoothly and prepare for upcoming growth. Pierson Requirements group is a company that specializes in training courses for these positions. Someone within your current staff can sign up for the seminars and courses available online through Pierson and become an invaluable asset to your future.

Some of the courses available include:

Business Requirements Gathering and Writing Training Seminar - The seminar focuses on implementing the JAD requirements gathering process, writing requirements and how to be an effective facilitator. These are all required skills for the Business Analyst. The workshop provides an understanding of the project life cycle using Use Cases and UML and how to incorporate them into a repeatable process (CMM- level 2) at your organization. The seminar teaches the student how to build UML diagrams and write use cases throughout the iterations of the project life cycle for project planning, scoping, requirements gathering, design and testing.