Outsourcing Facilitators and Business Analysts
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
The second phase is to conduct the Collaborative Requirements Session using JAD and industry standards and UML best practices. The goal of the session is to:
- Create consensus based requirements using brainstorming and storyboarding to capture the requirements deliverables as needed. Some of the requirements gathering techniques that can be used in the JAD sessions are the Context Diagram, Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagrams, Use Cases, Domain Object Models, Entity Relationship Diagrams, business rules, mock-ups, data field descriptions and data flow diagrams.
Record and document the deliverables utilizing a pre-determined template
Daily process checks with the participants and the technical project team
In the third phase, Pierson will complete and distribute the JAD documentation to the participants. The following activities will occur:
- Conduct debriefs with customer representatives during and immediately after the session
- Produce a final comprehensive report 'Turn Around Document' that would reflect all aspects of the session, including planning documents, work products and other relevant materials
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| Success Stories |
 Pierson provided Dell Professional Services with a customized methodology and trained over 150 of their consultants in JAD/RAD and object-oriented techniques with UML. Pierson was also part of Dell's Professional Services corporate core training program for all the consultants.
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Pierson trained the Verizon DSL Division Product Managers, Project Managers, Technical Leads, Requirements Leads, and Architects in a UML process for a repeatable requirements and system specification process. Pierson's UML process is being used for better communication with the development group. Pierson is also training the Testing Organization in UAT and UML best practices.
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Pierson is currently training over 300 people at Hallmark in best practices and industry standards using JAD techniques, UML, Unified Process and Facilitation. Pierson has also provided Hallmark with methodology consultation for implementing a repeatable process for Capability Maturity Model (CMM) certification.
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