About Our Services
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IAG specializes in business and software requirements analysis. IAG’s Senior Consultants provide services using Best Requirements Practices™ to rapidly define and manage business system specifications that deliver project and business success.
IAG’s team of the industry’s best Senior Consultants provides a wide variety of services related to requirements definition and management.
IAG uses extremely practical and effective methods that have been developed through hundreds of project engagements with organizations across North America.
The approach we apply on all of our services is based on well known industry standards and best practices. And we are known for the practical application of these methods to deliver superior results that meet the specific needs of our clients’ IT projects.
The Information Architecture Group has provided Requirements Services on more than 1000 projects worldwide. Put our expertise to work for you today!
Project Services
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IAG's Requirements Professional Services
IAG’s Senior Consultants can help you to define and manage your requirements from elicitation to implementation. Use IAG’s professional Requirements Architects to ensure the business needs and software requirements are realized throughout the entire SDLC.
IAG Senior Consultants can be engaged for as short as 1-4 week engagements to facilitate Project Scoping or Requirements Discovery Sessions or lead, coach or mentor your team through the full requirements process - to define, analyze, model, validate and manage the complete and detailed requirements for your project.
IAG offers a broad spectrum of services to define and manage the requirements your business. Project engagements involve requirements facilitation, analysis, modeling, producing business and software requirements specs and managing requirements through the product or software development life cycle.
| Project Scoping and Requirements Planning Services |
| Requirements Elicitation Services (Eliciting and Defining Business and/or Software Requirements) |
| Facilitating the Requirements Discovery Session |
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Business Requirements Definition |
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Business Process Modeling |
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Use-Case Specifications |
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Detailed Software Requirements |
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Data Warehouse Requirements Definition |
| Requirements Documentation, Review, Analysis & Validation |
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Real-time Requirements Documentation |
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Analysis and Modeling Activities |
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Facilitating Peer and Client Review Sessions |
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Facilitating Requirements Prioritization & Acceptance |
| RFP Preparation Services |
| Requirements Management Services |
| Requirements Coaching and Mentoring |
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With the most qualified consultants in the industry, IAG provides a wide variety of extremely productive requirements definition and management services. Whether you need immediate help on some of your critical projects or you want to set up a long term relationship to outsource the requirements effort on all of your development projects, The Information Architecture Group provides senior consultants certified in Best Requirements Practices that can help you achieve your goals.
How To Get Started
With a wide variety in the types of engagements IAG is involved we have proven success following this simple six-step process:
1. Complete a simple Engagement Scoping Questionnaire .
2. We’ll arrange a ‘scoping’ conference call.
3. We will provide a proposed plan and description of services.
4. Upon agreement to a statement of Work, a consultant or team is scheduled.
5. Consultant(s) review any pre-engagement material.
6. Consultants on-site.
Every engagement follows proven best practices and standards that are flexibly integrated with your business processes, terminology, work products and templates.
How the Service Works
IAG provides a team of two Requirements Consultants to facilitate and document the requirements for the software project. These engagements use IAG's own Requirements Discovery Process.
In addition to the requirements deliverables, IAG consultants are also available to coach, mentor and train staff Analysts, and assist in establishing organizational requirements standards and practices.
How We Work
As experts in the Requirements field, IAG’s Senior Consultants can either follow your requirements and/or application development process using industry best practices to work towards your deliverables, or IAG will follow or adapt its industry standard Requirements Discovery Process.
The RDP defines the process, techniques and work products that can be uniquely selected and easily adapted to each client’s specific project environment.
All of our consultants have been fully certified in the Requirements Discovery Process and in various Best Requirements Practices through our proprietary and extremely rigorous Qualified IAG Consultant (QIC) Certification Program.
Why it Works
All of our engagements follow a consistent framework for defining requirements. It is what we are most recognized for – delivering results through a consistent effective process and by the best in the field.
Requirements Process Improvement
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IAG’s Senior Requirements methodologists can help to integrate and roll-out requirements and business analysis best practices into your SDLC and Project Management process, or define your requirements process, practices, and guidelines - based on practical industry standards and IAG’s Requirements Discovery Process.
Services that IAG offers to help you improve you organizations Requirements Process include:
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Requirements Management Maturity Assessment
A detailed report rating your current requirements processes, staff competency, practices, techniques, tools, level of organizational support and quality of deliverables and results.
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Requirements Practice Integration
A Senior Requirements consultant provides advise and assistance in determining an implementing the most effective requirements practices for an organization with an existing SDLC.
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Requirements Process Development and Implementation
Senior Requirements consultant(s) lead the initiative to implement a more comprehensive or practical requirements process (within an existing SDLC framework or not)
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Template Design
IAG can create or enhance your templates for Requirements Specs, Use Cases, Data Definitions, Review Worksheets, checklists and tracking matrices
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Designing an Online Resource Center and/or Requirements Portal
Have IAG help you design and implement a Requirements Website for Business Analysts and Project Team members.
Even with an existing formal software development methodology or process, most companies struggle with defining and rolling out the specific steps, practices, techniques, deliverable templates and guidelines to their organization. And in a lot of cases, the process may be well defined in certain areas but weaker on the topics of Requirements Elicitation or gathering the business or system requirements.
Our consulting and research staff has experience with hundreds of different methodologies and practices. And IAG has worked with organizations at all levels of maturity in their software development process. We start at the front-end of the SDLC, helping to select, define, implement and manage the practices, techniques and deliverables that will work for your different projects.
By applying the industry best practices and standards, the Information Architecture Group can help you tailor and document a disciplined yet flexible standardized process. IAG stands apart in that we detail the specific (recommended and/or required) techniques, practices, procedures and work products. We have helped dozens of organizations implement a practical and useable requirements methodology that shows IT practitioners specifically how to do their requirements by using a consistent and easy-to-follow process. And these clients have achieved significant performance breakthroughs by following their IAG-enabled Requirements Discovery Process.
