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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.
Starting a business of any kind can be a very different experience depending on the amount of help you get and how muc experience that help has. With the current economy it is difficult to strike out on your own, but the consultants and methodology used by Pierson Requirements Group can really help you understand what you are getting into and the best steps to take toward success.
They use Joint Application Development or JAD. This is a technique used for gathering business software requirements. The purpose of JAD is to bring together the technical/creative team and the business community in a structured workshop setting to extract consensus based software 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.
Another method employeed frequently by Pierson Requirements Group is Rapid Application Development or RAD which is a process that speeds the delivery of functionality to end-users by segmenting software into pieces for delivery rather than delivering all of the software functionality in one large implementation. It is an iterative process utilizing a spiral methodology and is also customer driven following an evolutionary process using continuous application engineering in a time-boxed fashion with a dedicated professional team. The goal of the iterative approach is to reduce the time between requests and delivery of Business Application Software.
Pierson Requirements group can take some of the sting and frustration generally associated with the start of a company out of the equation. Contact their offices for more information.
Having a person on staff with the training to be able to identify any issue and point out all opportunities for growth in your company is an invauable asset. However, most companies, especially smaller companies looking to grow, do not have the resources to make such a position available full time. Instead they find it prudent and economical to hire a business analysis company to do these things for them.
Pierson Requirements Group offers a multitude of ways to do just that. This company will assess every single area of your business and find out if there are any gaping holes or even small leaks so that any problem is found and corrected as soon as possible. This may mean hiring more staff, letting some go, re organizing who does what and almost always involves more focused training.
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
Some of the companies that have taken advantage of Pierson’s experience are:
Nationwide - “Pierson provided the 4-day Requirements Gathering & Writing Training Seminar using JAD, Use Cases and UML. The Business Analysts, Project Managers and Quality Assurance Testers were trained. Also conducted was the User Acceptance Testing Training Seminar for the Testing staff.”
Prudential - “Pierson trained over 40 Project Managers, Technical Leads and DBAs in JAD Facilitation & Requirements Gathering using Data Techniques.”
The class focuses on industry standards and best practices for writing requirements needed for project scope definition, requirements and documenting the system specifications necessary for IT projects. The seminar focus is on:
The objectives of the seminar are to:
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 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. Their business analysts 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.
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.
