When a team is put together for the purpose of implementing new software or any other goal, it can be crucial to make sure they are using every bit of the time given the most efficiently possible in order to get the best outcome possible.
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
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As discussed in the previous blog, this week continues our look into business tips from SCORE and how Pierson Requirements Group can take those tips and turn them into plans and actionable goals.
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.
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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.
By utilizing their training seminars you can learn the best business practices for whatever your plan needs to get started. They offer seminars on Agile
Projects, Acceptance Testing, JAD Techniques and many many more. Their Consulting services includes mentoring, methodology,process analysis and improvement and even outsourcing facilitating.
The Requirements Gathering and Writing Training Seminar, using JAD and a use case driven approach, focuses on how to build UML diagrams, document and facilitate for requirements projects. The workshop provides training in facilitation, diagramming and writing techniques needed for project scoping, gathering requirements and developing a solution. The seminar focus is on:
- Requirements management and facilitation techniques
- Writing business and system use cases with agendas and scripts for facilitating
- Project Life Cycle using JAD and UML diagrams
- Managing the testing of the solutions and building test cases
- Package software evaluation and selection process
- Practical experience in facilitating and building UML diagrams for scoping sessions, requirements gathering sessions, and design focus groups
Each seminar participant receives a Seminar Handbook with sample agendas and scripts for conducting problem statement/scoping sessions, requirements definition sessions and design focus groups. A JAD Procedures Guide is also provided. Maximum of 10 students.
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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.
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Pierson has trained and mentored the U.S. Census Bureau Re-design division on their templates, requirements process tools and methods. Pierson has trained all the project teams including the Project Managers, Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Technical Managers, Programmers and Branch Chiefs in the new Re-design requirements gathering and writing process.
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.
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In this economy it’s hard to stay affloat and ahead of the game. This past year so many companies have gone out of business and the ones that are predicted to go under this coming year are astonishing. T Mobil, Reader’s digest, and Blockbuster are but a few of the listed companies that are in too much trouble to dig out of.
However, one of the best ways to make sure you have a superior company with better customer service is to constantly test and re-test your employees and your methods.
Employing a business analyst within your company is a great way to keep day to day tabs on what is being done well and what needs improvement. These individuals are sharp, focused, and diligent. The great ones are trained by Pierson Requirements Group.
Pierson aims to make you and your people run at their absolute best through targeting weak areas, retraining and even overhauling of old processes and methods.
Review the many ways in which they can offer your business the tools needed to stay in the black for years to come by making sure no one out there does what you do better or more efficiently.
Contact Pierson Requirements Group for more information on seminars and training classes today.
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The key to understanding where you want your business to go is simple. Set goals and then aim for them. Don’t stop until you have your company in the position where you want it. However, the key to getting from goal setting to goal reaching is more difficult to define. Pierson Requirements Group out of CT is a company of experts on bridging that specific gap.
Pierson will aid your company in taking your long term goals and breaking them down into daily steps involving analyzing, training, and execution.
They use some very specific methods which they have honed to near perfection.
“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
Pierson can also provide your company with a methodology to evaluate and select a vendor for outsourcing and for evaluation and selection of software packages.” – Pierson
Check out the pages of explanations and definitions to better understand what role Pierson can play in your business plan and how big that role is going to be.
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Understanding the importance of someone who can identify issues within your company is the true key to success.
Training courses that target specific areas within your company are one of the components to a great and growing empire. If your small business wishes to grow beyond it’s current reach, Pierson Requirements Group can help you do just that.
They have specialized trainers and training courses so that your employees can be better equip to handle whatever your professional niche throws at them.
They have courses such as the two day seminar entitled ‘Agile Training’. The course aims to focus on training the product owners and business users how to be an effective testers. This class will:
- 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
and much more! Each participant receives a handbook for later referencing and Pierson remains in contact with your offices should further questions become pertinent. See a full class breakdown here.
Contact Pierson today and watch how they can make your company faster, more efficient, and better at everything.
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