Pierson Requirements Group has a mentoring program put together for exactly this situation. They will assign a member of their team to coordinate with your team in an effort to help them realize the best way to create, implement, and endorse a plan.

Contact their offices to get all of these aspects to work together for you and your company.

Mentoring through Pierson includes:

Pierson has found that the mentoring for facilitation and process management has helped previous clients succeed in their first critical projects. Pierson can provide experienced mentors for the entire project team throughout the project life cycle.

One-on-One Mentoring can be provided to enhance and re-enforce the fundamentals and best practices taught in class.

• Instructors are available for critiquing requirements and quality assurance real life work products
• JAD Facilitation and Requirements Gathering mentoring to continue to enhance your collaboration skills
• Pilot Project Mentoring for process improvement initiatives

Mobile computing remains important, exciting and risky – While having a mobile site and or application for your business is important and can drive more customers to your site, it’s equally if not more important that the app runs smoothly. Customers agree that a poor web presence or difficult mobile app is more damaging than not having either.

Another area that may be of some concern is creating an app that is too focused on the look instead of the function. Experts say to expect some creators to go too far in the appearance of an application making it nearly useless for one reason or another.

If you are in need of great IT support or training for your employees, contact the people at Pierson Requirements Group as they have years of experience understanding trends and pitfalls even before they are seen by the general public.

Jeff Manhardt, PMP Project Manager, M&T Bank
“I worked with Joy in 2009  to provide Use Case Methodology training to over ten business analysts and technicians. Joy worked with me to customize the training program and provided expert on-site instruction. This training laid the foundation for activity diagrams and use cases that were recently audited and found to be the best my company has on record!” Top Qualities: Personable, Expert, Good Value

Toward this effort, Pierson Requirements Group has training seminars and methods aimed to make sure your customers are kept happy. Check out the online and in person classes Pierson offers:

Public Classroom training is available in Chicago and Rye, NY (20 minutes from NYC) throughout the year for select training classes that require a face to face instructor-led hands-on format.

Business Process Management (BPM) Facilitation (3 days) Provides facilitation skills and techniques needed to conduct effective BPM workshops and business meetings. A real life company project is utilized to practice facilitating the BPM process analysis and design stages.

Learning Use Cases, UML and JAD Techniques Training Seminar (3 days) to train business analysts and developers how to create and interpret Use Cases and UML models using JAD and how the artifacts fit into the project life cycle for project initiation, business process definition and design.

The Pierson Requirements Group has been a consulting and training company since 1990 and they’ve helped many businesses realize their potential by using practices to uniquely steer your company down the road to success. They can help you take your idea from inception to full fruition in a clear and concisely planned way which will aide the smooth running of your ship.

Contact them today for your next best idea.

Using a company like Pierson Requirements Group to show you in which areas you can improve and where to put resources can mean the difference between making money and throwing it away. Contact them to find out what training and analysis can do for your business no matter how big or small.

Listen to what others have said about the training Pierson Requirements Group can offer:

“I hired Pierson to come into Hallmark in 2002 to train a pilot class for a new repeatable requirements gathering process for Hallmark. I was the Manager of the newly created PMO whose task had been given by upper level management to bring Hallmark into qualification for SEI’s CMM- level 2 repeatable process. After Joy Matthews ran the initial training, I realized that Pierson had the ability to assess what our gaps were in order to become a top level organization and recommend solutions based on industry best practices. This proved to be a very successful project which Hallmark still maintains 5 years later with Pierson’s Requirements Group. In the middle of the project, Hallmark was rated CMM- level 3. Top management then brought in Accenture to assess the process and make recommendations for any gaps in the process. After several months, Accenture’s evaluation results stated that Hallmark was on the correct path and was already implementing a successful repeatable process with training that was customized where needed and which followed industry standards and best practices.

Pierson has trained 100s of business/systems analysts, requirements architects, developers, system architects, technical leads and project managers with a number of customized training classes to implement Hallmark’s “Quality Management Methodology”. Pierson is currently providing the same services for Hallmark Canada. I highly recommend that you use Pierson’s training.” – Manager of PMO hallmark

Seek help from other small businesses, vendors, professionals, government agencies, employees, trade associations and trade shows. Be alert, ask questions.

This is a particularly wise step. There are those who refuse to ask others for the valuable advice that could help a new business owner down the road to a less stressful beginning and possibly warning of potholes that can be avioded.

“Pierson Requirements Group is a company dedicated to giving the advice and training that is so necessary to anyone wishing to either start or build on a business of any kind.

Specializing since 1990 in helping companies realize a 30 – 50% time and cost savings for business requirements definition and testing by implementing a repeatable process through project team training, mentoring and methodology development. Pierson provides:

• On-site Training and Virtual Training
• Customization of all training at no charge to align with your company’s lifecycle, templates and terminology

Pierson specializes in business analysis and requirements gathering training for the Business Analysts, System Analysts, Project Leads, JAD Facilitators, Developers and Quality Assurance Leads using the latest in the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Use Cases, User Stories and Data Warehousing methods in conjunction with the JAD (Joint Application Development) process. User Acceptance Testing training is also available for Business Analysts, System Analysts, Developers and Quality Assurance Departments.”

Contacting Pierson Requirements Group can mean the difference between pick and shovel building and the knowledge to move mountains where customers and training are concerned.

This weeks tips is the second of the 5 business tips to writing your business plan.

2. Examine your motives. Make sure that you have a passion for owning a business and for this particular business.

“Pierson can provide you with a customized methodology for Object-Oriented development projects using the notation of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Unified Process. This customized methodology can be placed on your intranet to serve as a handbook or guide for the software system development teams. This document defines the steps and phases that should be followed, technical modeling options, and refers to quality procedures which should be employed. In this methodology Pierson

will provide your company with a repeatable process for:

• Using the notation of UML Modeling and Unified Process
• System Development Life Cycle deliverables
• Joint Application Development (JAD) activities and JAD Session agendas
• Rapid Application Development (RAD)
• Documentation templates

Best practices to be utilized throughout the Problem Statement, Requirements, Analysis, Design, Construction, Business User Final Acceptance and Transition phases of the system development life cycle.”
Creating your business plan can be a time consuming and sometimes daunting task. However, if you follow the steps outlined by a company aimed to help you along and use the tools offered by Pierson Requirements Group, the entire process becomes a step by step plan to greatness.

Pierson’s training provides a framework for project teams that promotes development iterations throughout the life cycle of a project using a RAD/Agile software development approach. NEW 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. Instructor Led Classroom Training is also available for classes that require a face-to-face format to improve facilitating, requirements gathering and conducting effective meetings skills. All of Pierson’s training can be conducted on-site.

Simply put Pierson Requirements group is a company aimed to improve your company and ultimately your bottom line. They can be invovled in every detail of your business and get to the heart of any issues while showing you potunit fr growth along the way.

Don’t lie awake wondering how you can improve, let Pierson show you where you can be better and then train you with seminars!

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.

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.