Accenture Delivery Methods

Accenture Delivery Methods provide the framework to guide global multidisciplinary teams on how best to achieve the client's business goals.

Well-defined methodologies that are easy to repeat improve the business performance of information technology and business process service providers. Accenture Delivery Methods are based on Accenture's extensive experience and help ensure peak performance of our global teams by:

• Reducing cost
• Increasing productivity
• Improving quality and consistency
• Ensuring predictability and timeliness
• Reducing risk
• Improving cross-group coordination
• Improving skills
• Increasing the number of opportunities for the re-use of technologies and processes.

A study over three to four years by the Software Engineering Institute indicates that some of the benefits of repeated and well-defined processes can be substantial:

• Median gains of 35 percent in annual productivity.
• Median increase of 22 percent in the early detection of faults.
• Median reduction of 39 percent in annual post-release defect reports.
• Median reduction of 19 percent in annual time-to-market.

Accenture Delivery Methods are the distillation of three decades of experience in creating and running multidisciplinary projects that deliver business benefits to clients.

For more than three decades, Accenture has been building up methodological know-how. The Accenture Delivery Methods represent the collective wisdom of our professionals around the world, and is based on the fact that repeatable and well-defined methods improve business performance. In the complex business of delivering services to and from multiple sites, Accenture Delivery Methods play a vital role in helping to ensure that teams work well together.

All of the Accenture Delivery Methods are built on industry-standard terminology and provide proven project management approaches that help clients meet Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 and International Standard Organization (ISO) 9000 requirements. In addition, these methods include robust estimators that drive accuracy in pricing and timing for all of our projects.

Accenture Delivery Methods is one of the most comprehensive set of methods available by a service provider.

Based on one framework, it provides a number of methods that support the entire engagement life cycle:

Management

• Accenture Delivery Methods for Transformation Change Management: To resolve strategic transformational change issues, helping to ensure that value is realized in all aspects of the transformational change journey.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Program Management: To plan, mobilize and manage a program at a client site or remotely.

• Accenture Delivery Methods for Custom Development: To ensure that clients receive the application solutions they require.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Packaged Development: To manage the implementation of application software packages for clients.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for SAP: To meet the specific needs in implementing SAP, based on the Accenture Delivery Methods for Packaged Development.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Oracle: To meet the specific needs in implementing Oracle, based on the Accenture Delivery Methods for Packaged Development.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for PeopleSoft: To meet the specific needs in implementing PeopleSoft, based on the Accenture Delivery Methods for Packaged Development.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Siebel: To meet the specific needs in implementing Siebel, based on the Accenture Delivery Methods for Packaged Development.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Retek: To meet the specific needs in implementing Retek, based on the Accenture Delivery Methods for Packaged Development.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Enterprise Integration: To meet the specific needs in implementing an enterprise integration architecture and/or overall integrated suite of applications, based on the Accenture Delivery Methods for Packaged Development.

• Accenture Delivery Methods for Application Management: To manage the support of an organization's portfolio of applications, addressing ongoing maintenance, resolving problems and developing enhancements.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Service Transition: To provide guidance on how to establish a viable new business organization; defining and implementing processes, organization and infrastructure.

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