In the business world this can be fatal to companies. In order to see growth in profits and influence, it is important to embrace change every single day and never become comfortable which leads to complacency.

Pierson Requirements Group is a company made of of ‘Sams”. Those who will bring you the platter of eggs and tell you that they are good. Although “Sam I Am” was a bit more pushy than a company aimed to help should be, they will still work hard at helping you to understand the basic concepts of change and why they will be good for you.

Contact Pierson so that you too will be able to say some of the things that other clients have said:

“We thoroughly enjoyed our training provided by Pierson Requirements Group. Like you, we had very limited experience with gathering and writing requirements going into the training. We were able to take the materials from the course and immediately apply them to our work. The training provides many examples, templates, and additional materials that are easily adapted to fit your business needs. Additionally, when going through examples, Joy has people take on the role they actually play in the elicitation, which makes the process more relevant and applicable. She also gives a lot of practice with the different techniques, so the process is easier to remember and you can also find the method that will work best for your business. Many of the other training courses we’ve taken have failed to do this. Additionally, Joy tailored the course as we were going through to best fit our needs. She really took the time to understand our needs and spent more time ensuring we fully understood the parts of the process most important to us. We found the training to be so helpful we plan on sending more of our employees in the upcoming months.” – Rachel Horowitz, Statistician Project Manager, U.S. Census Bureau

Pierson Requirements group is also dedicated to seeing the business hopes and dreams of others come true. In that vane, this months blogs will be discussing online tips from well known companies.

1. Clearly define your business idea.

“Pierson provides quality hands-on Instructor-Led face-to face classroom training with critiquing and mentoring from experienced senior instructors. Pierson’s training classes can be customized to align with your organization’s terminology, life cycle and templates. Modules on the class outline can be customized and combined with modules from other classes.

 Virtual Instructor-Led Training is a time efficient and cost effective way of delivering training to individuals and groups of attendees without travel. When we use Web Conferencing instead of traveling, we use less gasoline and we reduce our impact on our environment. Web Conferencing is a green technology. Web conferencing training includes hands-on case study exercises and instructor one-on-one mentoring of exercise deliverables.”

When writing your business plan, knowing what to inculde and what to leave out is perhaps the most important key to making sure that investors or banks will see how together you are.

Training with the intructors either face to face or online with Pierson Requirements Group that key can be explained and achieved.

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.

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.

Among his well thought out rules are Rule 7: Listen to everyone in your company and figure out ways to get them talking and Rule 10: Swim upstream. These two rules are part of what make his company remain making a profit well after he passed away and even in some of the most horrible economic climates.

At Pierson Requirements Group they too believe in listening to everyone in your company and can help you to ‘find a way to get them talking’. In their User Acceptance Testing Seminar they aim to train management to do just that.

The objectives of this seminar are to:

• Provide an understanding of the different testing techniques and methods and when to use them
• Learn how to identify and write test scenarios and test cases using UML and Use Cases
• Learn how to quality check requirements documents and use cases
• Define a repeatable process for User Acceptance Testing
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of the Business Analyst in UAT and where UAT fits in the SDLC
• Provide practical exercises for quality checking requirements documents, using testing techniques and methods, writing test scenarios, creating UAT plans and strategies and writing detailed defect reports
• Perform usability testing techniques and formal acceptance reviews for better customer satisfaction

Contact Pierson Requirements Group to schedule your next seminar today!

For more information please contact wpierson@piersonrequirementsgroup.com or call 203-322-1606.  Check out the website for www.piersonrequirementsgroup.com.

Click on the course name to view the course content.   Business Requirements Gathering & Writing using JAD, Use Cases and UML.

For more information please contact wpierson@piersonrequirementsgroup.com or call 203-322-1606.  Check out the website for www.piersonrequirementsgroup.com.