18 years of proven training for business systems analysts in requirements and testing
IIBA Endorsed Education Provider

Do you see room for improvement in your company? Maybe you just would like to see growth and need help figuring out where. Either way, Pierson Requirements Group can help.

Pierson is an IT company who’s mission is to help businesses of all sizes grow.

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:

Pierson can help you realize your growth goals by taking your ideas and making them into practical plans for implementation.

Contact them so that you can have the same results as some of these clients.

“This was the best training I have received in my professional career!”

“Very informative. Corporate wide training classes should be instituted.”

“The instructor is great. Material is well organized and 100% relevant to my work. Its relationship to our company’s process is extremely helpful.”

“The instructor’s method of teaching is very interactive.”

“I highly recommend this training for other employees as well as Business End Users.”

“I would like to see all the other groups in IT trained in JAD and think the future success of our projects would be greatly improved by using JAD.”

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In this day and age it’s important to continually change and grow in the business community. Like rotating stock, it’s important to keep your staff and company fresh and relevant at all times.

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.

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In the ever competitive business world it’s emportant to keep your company current and on the cutting edge of what seminars and training courses are available. Online searching and reading can uncover a whole new level of expertise available at the click of your mouse.

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. 

By taking the business analysis training courses offered at the Pierson Requirements Group website you are equipping yourself and your staff to be the absolute best in the specialized world of your field. Sparring no expense you will also utilize every penny of your investment for the most excellent training available.

Some of the companies that have benefited from the business analysis training courses are:
  1. Hallmark
  2. Experian
  3. Dell Professional Services
  4. The US Department of Energy
  5. the list goes on!

Some quotes on the JAD Facilitation and Methodology training provided by Pierson:

“The hands on experience and class discussions were great! The instructor was very effective and had a lot of knowledge to pass on – I like the learn-as-you-go setup. The class size was perfect- I would not recommend having more than 10 in any class. It was mentally stimulating – Also, the group feedback for each person at the end of a facilitation practice exercise was excellent.”

“This was the best training I have received in my professional career!”

“Very informative. Corporate wide training classes should be instituted.”

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Keeping up with the great big growing world of business can be difficult but extremely beneficial. In an effort to help, there are several great blogs out there, other than this one of course, that can be extremely informative.

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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.”

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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.
One such seminar offered is the Writing Effective Requirements Training Seminar. It’s a three day seminar who’s complete breakdown can be found on the Pierson website. Some of the Description is as follows:

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:

  • Understanding the different levels of requirements
  • The requirements management process
  • Characteristics and guidelines for writing effective requirements
  • Communication techniques for gathering requirements
  • Writing skills and instructions for writing successful scoping and requirements documents
  • Practical exercises in writing problem statements, b
  • usiness objectives, high-level requirements, non-functional requirements, screen and reporting specifications
  • Writing and critiquing use cases and requirements using guidelines and checklists

The objectives of the seminar are to:

  • Define best practices and standards for writing requirements and solutions documents
  • Provide practical exercises for using requirements gathering techniques using UML diagrams and use cases
  • Writing and critiquing requirements and system specifications using industry standards and best practice guidelines and checklists
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