The Boy Scouts motto “Be Prepared” is known to everyone weather you were a scout or not. However when you hear it most people will think of being prepared for the outdoors or in a survival situation. It is also important to be prepared in the business world.

To be prepared it is important to consult with those who know more than you. Pierson Requirements Group is a company who was put together in to help business owners to be prepared for upcoming trends by finding or creating the newest software for your needs.

If you are a business owner who would like to see more profits (who doesn’t?) then contacting Pierson can be the best decision you have made for your company.

They have training online and face to face for business analysts as well as methodolgy and mentoring for projects.

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:

• On-Site Training and Virtual Training
• Customization of all training at no charge to align with your company’s lifecycle, templates and terminology

Pierson’s training provides a framework for project teams that promotes development iterations throughout the life cycle of a project using aRAD/Agile software development approach. RAD/Agile requirements gathering and design techniques, agendas and scripts to provide project teams with easy implementation are included in Pierson’s JAD Facilitation & Requirements Gathering Training Seminar: A Framework For Implementing Object-Oriented Projects using RAD/Iterative Methods – 4 to 5 Days. This course provides intensive hands-on training in industry standards and best practices for iterative software development projects.

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:

• On-Site Training and Virtual Training
• Customization of all training at no charge to align with your company’s lifecycle, templates and terminology”

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.”

If you have ever listened to Tech Support people talk about their work then it is likely you have been very confused. Even the simple words they use can have little to no meaning for the ‘normal’ person listening.

Pierson Requirements Group not only understands the conversation, they know exactly how to tackle the issues discussed.

If you are having problems with your software, hardware, or any other area needing IT help, Pierson Requirements Group can and will help.

They have specific methodology and ways of getting things done that will make your issues a thing of the past:

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:

		Using the notation of UML Modeling and Unified Process
		System Development Life Cycle deliverables
		Joint Application Development (JAD) activities and JAD Session agendas
		Rapid Application Development (RAD)
		Documentation templates
		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.

Pierson Requirement Group is very good at what they do and one of the reasons is because they love it. This company’s entire success depends on the success of the company’s they train. They are a leading company in this type of analysis and training because of the passion they put behind it. Contact them today for all your business training needs.

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.

Simply put Pierson Requirements group is a company aimed to improve your company and ultimately your bottom line. They can be invovled in every detail of your business and get to the heart of any issues while showing you potunit fr growth along the way.

Don’t lie awake wondering how you can improve, let Pierson show you where you can be better and then train you with seminars!

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.

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.”

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. 

The Requirements Gathering and Writing Training Seminar, using JAD and a use case driven approach, focuses on how to build UML diagrams, document and facilitate for requirements projects. The workshop provides training in facilitation, diagramming and writing techniques needed for project scoping, gathering requirements and developing a solution. The seminar focus is on:

• Requirements management and facilitation techniques
• Writing business and system use cases with agendas and scripts for facilitating
• Project Life Cycle using JAD and UML diagrams
• Managing the testing of the solutions and building test cases
• Package software evaluation and selection process
• Practical experience in facilitating and building UML diagrams for scoping sessions, requirements gathering sessions, and design focus groups

Each seminar participant receives a Seminar Handbook with sample agendas and scripts for conducting problem statement/scoping sessions, requirements definition sessions and design focus groups. A JAD Procedures Guide is also provided. Maximum of 10 students.

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.

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.

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.

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.