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18 years of proven training for business systems analysts in requirements and testing
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Pierson Requirements Group, Inc. has trained Microsoft project teams in JAD Facilitation using Use Cases and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Pierson has also provided training to the Program Managers at Microsoft in 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Business Analyst Training is a way of targeting learning for exactly what your employees need. Pierson Requirements Group is a company who will provide business analysis training courses either on or off site to aid you in making your company as effective as possible. In order to take your business’ services to the next level you have to pinpoint your weaknesses and then create training classes and software to strengthen those areas.
Their Joint Application Development (JAD) which is used as a way to bring together the teams your company uses to design technical and creative aspects and the realities of the business world to create a round-table type discussion forum workshop to find out exactly what is needed in your field and make sure that your software is going to cater to those needs. This process saves time and money that is valuable during the upstart of any business.
They aim to cover every area of:
Trusting a company like Pierson to have your best intrests in mind is the key to a good working relationship, Pierson will answer any questions you or your staff may have before, during, and after your analysis begins. Find out if the methodology used by Pierson is something your company can benefit from by contacting them today.
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. These statistics are based on studies done by James Martin a leading methodologist.
An important aspect of the iterative development approach is the Joint Application Development (JAD) process. JAD is used as a technique for developing business system requirements. The purpose of JAD is to bring together IT and the business community in a structured workshop setting to extract consensus based system requirements. This is accomplished by using a trained JAD facilitator and customized, planned agendas to assist the participants in arriving at complete, high quality requirements. Experience has shown that the JAD process substantially reduces development time, costs and errors.
JAD is typically used in the early stages of a project life cycle. Pierson Requirements Group, Inc provides training and mentoring and shows how a project can be supported through Joint Application Development workshops.
Agile/Iterative development methodology includes JAD techniques for determining user requirements. These requirements are reflected in a set of products that are produced using Object Oriented Analysis and Design. Pierson provides training for Agile Requirements Gathering & Iteration Planning and JAD Facilitation & Requirements Gathering Training Seminar using Use Cases. Both these classes provide techniques that can be used by your project teams to achieve consensus-based requirements.
Here are some important statistics to share with your management. These statistics clearly support the importance of the role of the Requirements Lead/Business Analyst at your organization and why training in the industry standards and best practices is so important.
Pierson’s customers have found that it is a 200:1 cost savings to find defects in requirements rather than in the maintenance phase. Therefore, it is important to gather and write effective requirements and perform formal inspections and sign-off phases with the business community.
Studies performed at companies including GTE, IBM and HP have measured and assigned cost to errors occurring at various stages of the lifecycle. Studies were run independently and all reached the same conclusion. If at a unit cost of one is assigned to Coding, then the cost to detect and repair an error during the requirements stage is between five and ten times less. The cost to detect and repair an error during the maintenance stage is twenty times more. As much as a 200:1 cost savings results from finding errors in requirements versus finding errors in the maintenance stage.
Pierson Requirements Group, Inc. provides training in Writing Effective Requirements and User Acceptance Testing. Click on the links to view the class agendas and learn more about what best practices your project teams need to improve.
The definition of an application’s business requirements is an iterative process. The main purpose of the JAD sessions is to capture consensus based business requirements and provide the developers with a good understanding of what the business wants the system to do. JAD sessions should create documents describing the business activities and system interfaces by utilizing use cases and business models.
JAD Requirements Analysis Session-Activity Steps:
1. Build the High Level Activity Diagram
2. Develop the Use Case requirements by identifying the following:
· Further document the software requirements by identifying the main flows, alternate flows, exception flows, business rules, and design constraints.
· Prioritize the use cases and requirements lists. These are later used for the iterative release strategy.
3. Create the State Diagrams for GUI design and/or a Requirements Storyboard
4. Site Maps (Storyboards) and screen inventories can also be developed
5. Identify the business objects and their relationships for each use case. The steps for building the Domain Object Model are as follows:
· Identify the “real world” objects
· Identify the associations to the other objects
· Identify the multiplicity
· List the attributes and operations associated with each object
6. Build a glossary of definitions - actors, use cases and business objects
Iterative development requires that further analysis be done on user requirements to support each incremental release. This requirement is addressed by having JAD-like sessions (focus groups) that build on the results of the requirements sessions. The purpose of these focus groups is to drill down the requirements into a high-level design solution. These focus groups are made up of the technical project team and business subject matter experts.
JAD Focus Group Analysis (High Level Design) Session- Activity Steps:
1. Provide a detailed definition of the use cases created in the requirements analysis phase. The use case should describe the details of the user interaction with the system and have the associated screen shots or paper prototypes.
2. Build use case views for each use case to show how the objects are used in the use case.
3. Build the sequence diagram for use cases with more complicated workflows and refine the domain object models.
Conducting JAD requirements sessions and focus groups are key to a successful iterative development approach. These types of requirements and analysis sessions allow for collaborative requirements gathering and design. The entire project team is able to produce consensus based high-quality requirements deliverables in a short period of time.
Pierson Requirements Group, Inc. provides the project teams with Agile Modeling Techniques for Collaborative Solutions — check out the class agenda
This is a good article to review on this subject. http://www.startupcto.com/processes/business-vs-technical-requirements
Joy E. Matthews is the cofounder and Vice President of Training and Consulting Services for Pierson Requirements Group, Inc., (www.piersonrequirementsgroup.com), founded in 1990. She is an Information Systems Specialist with expertise in implementing Iterative Development and Joint Application Development using many development tools. She is accomplished in business modeling and facilitation techniques. She has participated in all phases of Information Engineering systems development and Total Quality Management projects. She has successfully completed Business Process Re-engineering, Information Strategy Planning, Business Area Analysis, Functional Area Analysis and Business System Design projects for a number of organizations and is a certified facilitator.
Joy trains the latest in UML and the use case methodology using JAD. She is an expert in JAD and UML best practices and industry standards. She is the co-author of Pierson’s repeatable development Methodology for Multi-Tier Architecture projects using Object-Oriented methods and JAD. Joy is the author of the JAD Facilitation and Requirements Gathering Seminar: A Process for Implementing Object-Oriented Projects. She is accomplished in Object-Oriented Requirements Analysis, Analysis and Detailed Design. She has facilitated and managed projects for all phases of the system development life cycle.
