Facilitated Sessions to Gather and Define Business and Software Requirements

A team Requirements Consultants can be engaged to conduct the Requirements Elicitation Sessions and quickly define and document the necessary and sufficient business and software requirements for your critical projects. A Senior Requirements Facilitator will lead the meeting(s) while an expert Requirements Consultant will perform the documentation, analysis and verification activities during and after the sessions to ensure all the requirements and models are clear, complete and accurate.

IAG’s Requirements Consultants are seasoned experts in Business Analysis and Software Engineering best practices. We use specific methods and practices that have been proven to be effective at ensuring the meetings are focused and productive, and the resulting requirements specifications are clear and accurate.

IAG’s Requirements Elicitation service is a very productive and cost effective way to obtain high quality requirements documentation, extremely quickly, using specialized requirements facilitation and documentation experts.

Typical Engagement

Facilitating a Requirements Discovery Session

One Senior Consultant acts as the facilitator, guiding subject matter experts through the definition of their requirements. Applying Best Requirements Practices™, the lead consultant will:

A second Requirements Consultant is responsible for the complete documentation and production of the deliverable while the Facilitator conducts the Discovery Session. This is known as paired analysis and in addition to producing immediate and tangible results, both consultants play an active role coaching & mentoring the IT analysts during this phase of the project.

During these sessions the Consultants will record all the business needs from the group's discussion and capture all the models, diagrams, and narratives – together these produce the deliverables at the end of the engagement.

IAG Consulting conducts the sessions and produces the Requirements Specification. A team of consultants ensure immediate and successful results.

"I found this process to be extremely customer-focused - and we
got an accurate deliverable for our review right away."

"I was truly amazed how the consultant pulled us together and
kept us focused - it was the most productive meeting I've had
since I've been with the company"

Why use IAG?

• The cost and time advantage of engaging senior requirements definition experts for a short (1-4 week) period vs. a single or team of junior or intermediate Business Analysts for a period of months.
• To start a project with reliable experts and hand-over a high quality standardized deliverable to your internal Business Analysts/ Business Systems Analysts/ Systems Analysts.
• As opposed to contract Business Analysts, IAG consultants all employ a consistent and standardized process and use proven practices in which they have all been certified by IAG.
• Because our Senior Consultants complete dozens of projects every year, they are unique in the diversity and experience they bring to every project.
• Our Consultants lead the sessions using matter-of-fact questioning and analysis techniques all the while managing key group dynamics – keeping focused, on track, and avoiding the common traps of user meetings and analysis paralysis.
• The advantage of engaging senior external consultants with no biases or hidden agendas; and to overcome obstacles in obtaining commitment, consensus and agreement.