Education

Learn how to incorporate Best Practices into your Bid Development or IT life-cycle.

VisibleThread courses are delivered directly or through our network of certified service partners.

Courses are preferably delivered at customer location, although remote web-based training options are available. Contact info@visiblethread.com to discuss your needs.

C100: Introduction to Structural and Qualitative Approaches for Document Analysis

This two-day training course is designed for team members involved in the IT life-cycle, specifically business analysts, project managers and others responsible for defining requirements specifications and test plans. Learn pragmatic applications of Best Practices and be able to apply the knowledge to improve all aspects of the requirements capture process in your organization.

C200: VisibleThread 101

This one-day training session is designed for new VisibleThread users who want to become familiar with all the product features and apply them to analyzing document structural and quality deficiencies, as well as measuring adherence to Best Practice over time.

C201: VisibleThread for the “Center of Excellence”

This two-day course is designed for team members responsible for auditing and control of effective process across organizations. Project and program managers will gain hands-on experience tailoring effective Best Practices for their organizations, and applying them across the Enterprise. At the end of this course, you’ll know how to customize Best Practice for all aspects and artifacts of the project life-cycle. You’ll also leave with strategies for an effective roll out to corporate teams, where multiple stakeholders interact with VisibleThread.

C202: VisibleThread for Bid Proposal Development

This two-day course is designed for Bid Response and legal teams responsible for producing the best possible bid outcome. Bid Managers and SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) will gain hands-on experience with VisibleThread. A customer-specific set of bid materials (pdfs and Word/Excel docs) are using to create the compliance matrix, generate the proposal outline, identify liability language, facilitate team discussions and track changes to response volumes. At the end of this course, your team will know how to adopt VisibleThread ‘in anger’ for highly efficient response development.

For course inquiries please contact info@visiblethread.com

VisibleThread for IT

2:48 minutes
This summary overview shows the business case for using VisibleThread for IT programs. It shows why up to 42% of IT project cost can be attributed to defective documentation and demonstrates how VisibleThread addresses this large business issue.

Red-flagging Bad Language

3:47 minutes
There are some words/phrases that you should avoid in a proposal. This short video shows how VisibleThread scans and red-flags 'bad language' in your RFP Responses.

Using Discovery to spot Gaps

2:28 minutes
Identification of key concepts in issued documents (RFP etc.) helps align the language of the response volumes. Discovery in VisibleThread can uncover mismatches and lack of alignment between issuer and response docs to support reviews and underpin a winning bid.

Validating Win Theme Language

4:43 minutes
Win themes articulate business differentiation. Too often, with multiple contributors and authors, it is hard to keep theme language consistent.

Here we see how VisibleThread validates response docs against win themes by:

A starter compliance matrix in 3 minutes

4:20 minutes
Proposal Managers have to manually scan issued documents or pdfs to spot requirements prefaced with 'shall', 'must' etc. and track them in spreadsheets. This demo shows an 'obligation scan' run against a draft RFP pdf. All instances of 'will', 'must', 'shall' are identified. It concludes by generating a first pass of an Excel Compliance Matrix.

Collaborations and Team Reviews with
Discussions

5:31 minutes
Managing inputs from multiple contributors and conducting efficient team reviews is critical to successful outcomes. This demo shows how VisibleThread supports collaboration using web based discussions.

Integrating with MS SharePoint

2:36 minutes
VisibleThread integrates with MS SharePoint using an intuitive import capability. This short demo shows how you can import an MS SharePoint document for analysis.

Plain Language Analysis

4:11 minutes
Plain Language Analysis drives clear documentation. This demo outlines how VisibleThread can identify long sentences, passive langauge and facilitate plain langauge audits.