18 years of proven training for business systems analysts in requirements and testing
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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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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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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. 
They aim to cover every area of:

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.

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Some trends that people in the business world will be watching in the upcoming year are IT trends. These are some important trends to watch according to a popular website.

Mobile computing remains important, exciting and risky – While having a mobile site and or application for your business is important and can drive more customers to your site, it’s equally if not more important that the app runs smoothly. Customers agree that a poor web presence or difficult mobile app is more damaging than not having either.

Another area that may be of some concern is creating an app that is too focused on the look instead of the function. Experts say to expect some creators to go too far in the appearance of an application making it nearly useless for one reason or another.

If you are in need of great IT support or training for your employees, contact the people at Pierson Requirements Group as they have years of experience understanding trends and pitfalls even before they are seen by the general public.

Jeff Manhardt, PMP Project Manager, M&T Bank
“I worked with Joy in 2009  to provide Use Case Methodology training to over ten business analysts and technicians. Joy worked with me to customize the training program and provided expert on-site instruction. This training laid the foundation for activity diagrams and use cases that were recently audited and found to be the best my company has on record!” Top Qualities: Personable, Expert, Good Value


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The methodology necessary to make true change in a seamless and workable manner is often confusing and difficult to find. Pierson Requirements Group can make the entire process less of a hassle by breaking each step down in a way that is understandable and implementing each step when the time is right.

As stated on their website, they are committed to finding what in your company needs improvement and then giving you solutions that will promote the change necessary.

Contacting the offices will provide a one on one conversation that will become the first step toward your next step.

“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:

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.

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.”

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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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Continuing this months theme of reading and sharing information from popular business blogs, I’ve looked up some blogs who talk about why it’s important and helpful to have blogs integrated into your business.

First off, it gets your voice and opinion out there. This way your customers can know what you are thinking and why yo do the things you do. But perhaps more importantly it gives your customers and followers a change to talk back to you.

With blogs and the ability to comment on them, customers and readers are able to let you know how they would rate their experience at your place of business or how they would like things to be done differently.

At Pierson Requirements Group, they have business analysis training who will enable you to know what to do with that kind of feedback. With an aim toward making sure your company is the best it can be, Pierson hold seminars and training sessions that show you how to take feedback, run it through your IT department, and make it into a solid plan.

Contact the customer service department at Pierson Requirements group to learn more about their methodology and business analyst training offered.

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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 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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