July 21st, 2010
Moving from legacy business systems to a new integrated ERP system can be a big change and challenge for you and your company. Find out how companies are using business process modeling to examine current processes, identify opportunities for more efficiency and better automation, and receive additional value from an implementation of a new ERP system.
This webinar will explain the process of a CCG Business Process definition workshop, identify the benefits you can expect from the workshop, and share the gains made by clients who have examined their processes with us recently.
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Time: 10 – 11 a.m. PDT
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July 21st, 2010
Really, you can get the requirements definition and management tools you need, when you need them, for a price that won’t drain your entire IT budget.
As if trying to realizing the full value of requirements definition and management through visual modeling wasn’t challenging in its own right, now you have to contend with how to acquire and use these tools. Do I buy licenses? Can I lease? What about software on demand via SaaS on the cloud? If you want to learn how visual requirements definition via cloud computing can drive project success while saving you precious capital and time, Join IBM, Ravenflow, and CloudOne for this webinar.
Let’s face it: tight budgets, limited time, and reduced headcount forces everyone into an “office tools work good enough” strategy. We all know how that can turn out as evidenced by leading analyst reports that indicate nearly 70% of all software development projects are significantly challenged or fail outright! That’s why CloudOne and Ravenflow have teamed up with IBM Rational Software to empower businesses and IT stakeholders to collaborate in the cloud so that requirements are defined faster, more clearly and with greater quality. Join this webinar to learn about:
* The latest trends in cloud computing and SaaS-based business solutions for IBM Rational Jazz software
* Leveraging the cloud for anytime, anywhere requirements collaboration for your software development projects
* Leveraging IBM Rational Requirements Composer for end-to-end requirements authoring
* Leveraging RAVEN Visual Analyzer within IBM’s RRC to analyze and visualize use cases for greater quality and consistency
* Transforming your requirements process for more successful project outcomes
This webinar will include a live demonstration of IBM Rational Requirements Composer and RAVEN Visual Analyzer working seamlessly together on the CloudOne platform.
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Time: 10 – 11 a.m. PDT
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July 2nd, 2010
Whether documenting work procedures for a process improvement initiative or defining requirements for a new application project, drawing process diagrams from scratch has been the bane of many business users.
Visualizing business processes is the critical first step to understanding them, so they can be changed and optimized as required. But far too many business and process analysts struggle to create diagrams that clearly and accurately reflect the way their company works. Despite advancements in drawing tools like Visio, it often takes hours or even days to get the diagram right.
Attend this free webinar to learn how RAVEN Cloud automatically generates diagrams from written descriptions of the process so you don’t have to draw them. Learn how to:
· Write process narratives in plain English
· Use RAVEN to analyze and visualize the text
· Identify and correct any errors or process gaps
· Review and re-orient the diagram as you wish
· Download the diagram to your desktop
This webinar will include a live demonstration of RAVEN Cloud so you can see for yourself how to create visually stunning, error-free process diagrams in mere minutes.
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Time: 10 – 11 a.m. PDT
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July 2nd, 2010
Whether documenting work procedures for a process improvement initiative or defining requirements for a new application project, drawing process diagrams from scratch has been the bane of many business users.
Visualizing business processes is the critical first step to understanding them, so they can be changed and optimized as required. But far too many business and process analysts struggle to create diagrams that clearly and accurately reflect the way their company works. Despite advancements in drawing tools like Visio, it often takes hours or even days to get the diagram right.
Attend this free webinar to learn how RAVEN Cloud automatically generates diagrams from written descriptions of the process so you don’t have to draw them. Learn how to:
· Write process narratives in plain English
· Use RAVEN to analyze and visualize the text
· Identify and correct any errors or process gaps
· Review and re-orient the diagram as you wish
· Download the diagram to your desktop
This webinar will include a live demonstration of RAVEN Cloud so you can see for yourself how to create visually stunning, error-free process diagrams in mere minutes.
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Time: 10 – 11 a.m. PDT
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June 29th, 2010
The most common type of requirements problem, according to Gartner, is missing requirements. Incomplete requirements specifications often result in missed deadlines and rejection of applications at acceptance testing.
Improving communication with all stakeholders can dramatically reduce the number of missed requirements, improving quality and reducing overall time to market.
Attend this FREE webinar to learn more about finding missing requirements during elicitation sessions and during the requirements definition process, as well as solutions for accelerating the requirements development process. Learn how to:
- Identify the most common types of missed requirements
- Accelerate application time to market
- Link business and application development strategies
- Reduce rework costs
- Find missing requirements
This webinar includes a live demonstration of the award-winning RAVEN, winner of the 2009 JOLT Productivity Award!
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Time: 10 – 11 a.m. PDT
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June 28th, 2010
Check out this Ravenflow-hosted webinar featuring Mary Gerush, Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
Mary spoke about the results of her two-year long journey researching requirements skills, best practices, processes, and tools. Mary spoke about how some of the latest trends, including Agile methodologies, Lean Software, and Software-as-a-Service, have changed the way organizations are defining and managing high quality software requirements in the pursuit of delivering better products.
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June 22nd, 2010
Before the project team can successfully implement requirements, they need a clear understanding of the functional, non-functional and other key characteristics of those requirements. The elicitation phase of RAMP (Requirements Analysis and Management Process) describes the activities you perform to interact with stakeholders, to discover their essential product or application needs, and gain the understanding necessary to specify them in more complete detail. While the other activities discussed in this webinar series are important, eliciting and specifying the project requirements are the real heart of your work.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
• Plan requirements elicitation meetings with end users and stakeholders
• Facilitate requirements elicitation meetings with end users and stakeholders
• Interview end users and stakeholders to identify essential business needs
• Confirm the project goals, applicable processes, and required capabilities
• Gather requirements notes, capability details, and related information
The Ravenflow RAMP Methodology describes a business-driven, best practices approach to planning, eliciting, specifying, validating and managing requirements for maximum project success. Bringing together proven business process and use case analysis techniques, the methodology enables rapid definition of essential business requirements by modeling and analyzing the processes where the solution will be used. Required capabilities are mapped from their parent business processes, then broken down into increasing levels of detail until the entire project scope has been specified. This not only ensures the requirements fully reflect business needs, but contain the detail necessary for successful implementation by the development team.
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Tags: Elicitation, gather, interview, RAMP, raven, requirements
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June 17th, 2010
An Effectiveness Review is a chance to revisit how you are using vision, how your culture has adapted to vision, and what areas of improvement are possible. This webinar explains the process of an Effectiveness Review, identifies the benefits you can expect from a review, and shares the gains made by clients who have completed an Effectiveness Review recently.
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June 1st, 2010
Ravenflow today announced a new contest to see who can create business process diagrams the fastest.
“We’re finding that many business analysts struggle to complete error-free process diagrams quickly,” said Susan Boers, President and CEO of Ravenflow. “Our new RAVEN Cloud service improves a tedious and error prone task from taking hours or days to mere minutes. Now all business people can get stunning process flow diagrams without having to become drawing experts because RAVEN does the drawing for them. We are hopeful that the contest will help teach analysts a new fun way to perform their everyday tasks and give them additional confidence in producing an excellent work product.”
The contest kicks off for the summer months, and anyone can compete to win the $1000 Grand Prize. The winner will be selected September 15. To enter, users must submit a video of using RAVEN Cloud to document a business process and clock the time they did it in. Simply email videos to quickdraw@ravenflow.com. The Grand Prize winner will be selected on the complexity of the diagram, the time it took to create and draw the process in RAVEN Cloud, as well as creativity. Submissions become the property of Ravenflow. To help analysts get started, a sample submission is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIp-0×9ZS7E.
RAVEN Cloud is hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform and features a highly attractive, easy-to-use Web application interface based on Microsoft Silverlight. Based upon a patented language engine, RAVEN Cloud is the only natural language application that allows business people to describe their processes in plain English, and then automatically identify gaps and other errors while generating visual diagrams all stakeholders can understand.
The beta is free and available to everyone now at www.ravencloud.com.
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May 24th, 2010
The planning phase of RAMP (Requirements Analysis and Management Process) sets the stage for requirements work. You collect some initial information to help scope the effort, and then you develop a plan for eliciting, specifying, and verifying requirements with project stakeholders. In some companies, all of the requirements work is completed at the beginning of the project and signed off, following a traditional or modified waterfall approach. In other companies, requirements work is performed in a series of feature-driven iterations using lean or agile development methods. You do the same tasks with either approach. The difference is primarily in when you perform your requirements work, not how you perform it. In either case, you still need to do some amount of requirements planning at the beginning of the project.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
• Define the high-level goals and business requirements for the project
• Identify the application end users and other stakeholders for the project
• Identify business processes to be impacted or transformed in the project
• Define the end-user capabilities required for each process identified
• Determine business priorities and order capabilities to be implemented
The Ravenflow RAMP Methodology describes a business-driven, best practices approach to planning, eliciting, specifying, validating and managing requirements for maximum project success. Bringing together proven business process and use case analysis techniques, the methodology enables rapid definition of essential business requirements by modeling and analyzing the processes where the solution will be used. Required capabilities are mapped from their parent business processes, then broken down into increasing levels of detail until the entire project scope has been specified. This not only ensures the requirements fully reflect business needs, but contain the detail necessary for successful implementation by the development team.
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