Accenture

Adopted a standardized PM Process and Tool framework to reduce IT Project overrun.

The Client

Accenture is the world's leading provider of management and technology consulting services and solutions. Accenture helps their clients identify and capitalize on their most important business and technology opportunities, and provide solutions to their most critical challenges. Accenture operates globally and enables their clients to operate with speed, flexibility and consistency around the world.

The Challenge

Reduce project overruns and provide fact-based, accurate project status reporting across the TS CIO organization along with providing Accenture with standardized information-based project reporting with a structured Project Management Framework.

Other key challenges included:

• Establishing a centre of PM excellence and establish self-sufficient capability across 24 project managers for the application of Project Management principles and support Project Management Tools
• Developing and executing a scalable solution to facilitate high adoption and utilization of Microsoft Project and Project Central
• Allowing the collection of Actual Work and Estimates to complete by Project, by Resource

The Pcubed Solution

Accenture will establish a comprehensive project management toolkit allowing accuracy of available data and timeliness of updates amongst a multi-disciplined and distributed workforce, and help develop a "Project Definition Planning" process allowing better control, management and visibility of Projects not yet in Execution.

Key elements of the solution included:

• Implementation of MS Project Management Tools - Project Central to status updates, reporting, and timesheet capture together with MS Project
• Put in place Project Maturity Measurement tool to enable measurement of the PM capability in the organization and track the improvements
• Created an internal self-sufficient Project Management Coach approach and capability to support enterprise-wide adoption