Archive for June, 2010

Find Missing Requirements

Tuesday, 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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Special Webinar Featuring Independent Research Firm

Monday, 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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Requirements Elicitation with RAMP

Tuesday, 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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Effectiveness Reviews: How to increase the ROI you’re achieving from Deltek Vision

Thursday, 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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$1000 Quick Draw Challenge Contest

Tuesday, 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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