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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On any level of business companies can benefit from additional analysis and training courses.
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.
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Sam Walton, the founder of the extremely successful retail chain Wal*Mart wrote “10 Rules For A Successful Business’, this article outlines great basic ways to get and keep your workplace running and running well.
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!
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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 term outsourcing has become on that people feel negatively about. However as a business owner the concept is hugely profitable and helps the global economy.
Simply put the idea is that you can put some of your call centers and the like in countries where labor is cheaper than it is here in the states. The families able to procure employment from American businesses in poorer areas are able to make far and away more than what other families in the area are. By providing jobs you are truly changing the face of people who have been impoverished for as long as most can remember.
The Pierson Website explains:
Pierson Requirements Group, Inc. has divided the services into three phases of tasks. The phases are preparation, workshop and follow-up.
During the Preparation Phase, Pierson Requirements Group, Inc. will include the following activities:
- Interviews and orientations of key stakeholders (SMEs) from each business unit to review and uncover seed material and identify project issues for the session
- Teleconference and on-site interviews to review the current documentation practices and templates used for business requirements
- Review of sample documents for a similar project
- Planning the session logistics, deliverables and agenda with the project team
- JAD Facilitator and JAD Documenter prepare the JAD Documentation to be used in the session
Contact Pierson Requirement Group for a full and complete explaination and the steps toward making this type of situation a reality.
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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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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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A system analyst is someone within a company who researches problems, makes plans for a solution, and deals with the intricacies of developmental plans for meeting business or other requirements. A well trained analyst should be familiar with several different types of approaches to problems. Also they should be familiar with a variety of programming languages, operating systems, and different types of hardware and software to be used within a company.
” Because they often write user requests into technical specifications, the systems analysts are the liaisons between vendors and IT professionals. They may be responsible for developing cost analysis, design considerations, and implementation time-lines.” – Web Definition
The Pierson Requirements group aims to get your analyst to the top of his or her game by providing the best possible approach to all of these areas of expertise. They have training courses such as a 2 day course entitled ‘Project Management Training’.
The Introduction to Project Management class offers training in the basic skills that a Project Manager would use to effectively manage an IT Project. The participants will learn how to scope and plan projects for IT initiatives. The seminar focus is on:
- How to be an effective project manager and what skills are required
- How to define the project vision and scope
- How to create and manage an effective project plan
- How to manage the project communication process
- Each seminar participant receives a Seminar Handbook with sample templates, checklists, procedures guide and a solution set.
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