Accenture Delivery Methods and Estimators

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.

Accenture Delivery Methods Estimators enhance Accenture's ability to plan, estimate and execute our solutions and services. Accenture Delivery Methods Estimators are aligned with specific tasks defined in the Accenture Delivery Methods and help teams determine a project’s level of effort, appropriate staffing mix and delivery costs by:

• Increasing the overall rigor of creating estimates.
• Providing tools with a rich set of features that are intuitive and easy to use.
• Delivering more accurate estimates based on experience and project historical data.
• Allowing estimation of work of various types and scale.
• Integrating with a variety of supporting tools to assist with staffing, costing, and planning projects.

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

Accenture has been building methodological and estimating know-how. Accenture Delivery Methods and Estimators represent the collective wisdom of our professionals around the world, and are based on the fact that repeatable and well-defined methods and accurate estimates improve business performance. In the complex business of delivering services to and from multiple sites, Accenture Delivery Methods and Estimators play a vital role in helping to ensure that teams work well together.

All 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. Robust Accenture Delivery Methods Estimators drive accuracy in pricing and timing for all of our projects.

Accenture Delivery Methods and Estimators are one of the most comprehensive sets of methods and estimators available by a service provider. They are based on a common framework and support the entire engagement life cycle:

Management Methods and Estimators
Drive discipline and broad-based oversight to ensure identified value is delivered. Examples of Methods and Estimators in this category include:

• Accenture Delivery Methods for Program, Project and Service Management: To plan, mobilize and manage all functions necessary to run any type of Accenture engagement, whether consulting or outsourcing.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Service Termination: To provide guidance for terminating and/or transitioning an outsourced service from our control to a client or third party.

Implementation Methods and Estimators
Design and build solutions and all of their elements including business processes, systems and organizations. Examples of Methods and Estimators in this category include:

• Accenture Delivery Methods for Distributed Agile Development: To enable distributed agile development of application solutions by bringing together the Accenture project experiences, multi-site support, lightweight deliverables and the flexibility of sound agile practices.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Distributed Agile—Mobility: To provide a lightweight and agile approach to software development with mobile technologies, based on Accenture Delivery Methods for Distributed Agile Development.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Custom Development: To ensure that clients receive the application solutions they require.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Custom Java Development: To support the custom development of application solutions using Java, based on the Accenture Delivery Methods for Custom Development.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Custom Portal Development: To support the development of portal applications for clients, based on the Accenture Delivery Methods for Custom Development.
  
  
• 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 Small Project Development: To provide guidance for managing and executing a small application development project, whether a new application, a major enhancement or an upgrade.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Testing: To support a variety of testing service projects such as testing strategy, test assessments, Testing Center of Excellence implementations and all activities inherent in systems integration testing engagements.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Business Intelligence: To implement business intelligence (BI) projects and support projects implementing Extract-Transform-Load, single-instance custom data warehouse, and reporting and analysis.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Change Enablement: To support systems implementation projects by conducting and facilitating the necessary change management, organization transformation, training and performance support.
  
  
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Predictive Analytics: To support establishing and executing an analytical pilot/proof of concept, preparing and supporting the operations of the analytics solution, and defining and implementing the solution architecture to support the analytics capabilities.

Operations Methods and Estimators
Deliver ongoing services across application management, technology infrastructure and business processes. Examples of Methods and Estimators in this category include:

• Accenture Delivery Methods for Service Delivery: To provide a common, global method that supports all types of service delivery, including:

• Application Outsourcing: Guidance for application maintenance, development, product support and portfolio maintenance.

• Infrastructure Outsourcing: Descriptions for all Infrastructure Outsourcing service lines.

• Business Process Outsourcing: Links to all industry and cross-industry service provided by business process outsourcing.