A. B. Computer Systems and Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step – Skills, experience, and proven tools for your successful implementation.
You’ve got a lot riding on the successful implementation of your new Microsoft Dynamics® solution. We do, too. At A. B. Computer Systems, we use the proven processes, tools, and guidance in Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step to help deliver successful implementations.
Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step helps us deliver a predictable, on-time and on-budget Microsoft Dynamics implementation that can provide you a quick return on investment, meet your business requirements, and help you be poised to meet future needs as your company evolves.
Guidelines and Templates Proven by Project Management Institute – effective project management is critical to ensuring a successful implementation. Sure Step provides tools and guidance that are tested and proven by the Project Management Institute. This can help us ensure a successful project for you by managing productive meetings, communicating with you effectively, and delivering value throughout your implementation.
Thorough Preparation and Change Management – Driving change and ensuring that new processes are widely adopted are critical components of any business transformation initiative. Change Management guidance provided in Sure Step helps us prepare your organization for process optimization, improved experiences, and increased productivity.
Cost-effective Training – During your Microsoft Dynamics implementation and beyond, it’s important to ensure your team members are fully trained on all the features of your new solution. We can help you gain access to CustomerSource, a key benefit of the Business Ready Enhancement Plan, as well as to our training tools and offerings. CustomerSource gives you access to valuable online training tools, tips and tricks to help your users get the most benefit from the new solution, and a broad community of other Microsoft Dynamics users from whom you can learn.
Risk Management – Effectively managing risk and changes in requirements is critical to the success of your project. Sure Step provides detailed guidance and recommended processes so we can better work with you to effectively manage risk, scope and changes throughout your implementation project.
Executive Management Buy-in and Support – Executive management involvement and support during the selection and implementation process is critical to the successful launch of your Microsoft Dynamics solution. Sure Step provides in-depth guidance on roles, responsibilities, and timelines that can help us maintain appropriate executive engagement throughout your implementation project.
Resource Availability – Sure Step helps create an ecosystem of Microsoft partners that meet a certain standard of implementation practices and quality, which helps us ensure that the resources you need will be available throughout your Microsoft Dynamics implementation.
The Sure Step methodology offers numerous benefits to organizations, including:
- A clear and comprehensive project plan that ensures all stakeholders are aligned and focused on the same objectives.
- A flexible and scalable approach that can be tailored to the specific needs of each organization.
- A proven process that reduces project risks and ensures successful project outcomes.
- Continuous improvement through the operation phase, ensuring that the solution continues to meet the evolving needs of the organization.
Why Dynamics 365 Business Central implementation methodology is important?
A methodology is like a roadmap for your project. It guides you from the start to the finish, and helps you achieve predictable outcomes. A good methodology can help you:
- Be consistent and reliable in your work.
- Define clear phases, milestones, deliverables, and criteria for each stage of the project.
- Assign roles and responsibilities to your team members.
- Reduce the risks of missing or forgetting important tasks.
- Follow proven best practices and standards.
- Save time and money by optimizing your resources and processes.
- Avoid surprises and disappointments by setting realistic expectations and goals.
- Deliver a user-centric solution that delights your customers and stakeholders.
Think of a methodology as a planned journey. To reach your destination successfully, you need to:
Plan ahead: Before you start, make sure you know where you’re going (project scope), what you need (resources, governance, and methodology), and how you’ll track your progress (project monitoring).
Know the road: Map out the route, or solution blueprint, that shows the start and end dates for each milestone. This way, you can measure your progress, and your team knows what they need to do.
Avoid pitfalls: Follow the best practices and standards that minimize the chances of errors, delays, and scope creep.
Get there faster: Use strategies that help you speed up your work and reduce costs. Plan, act, and review regularly to make sure you’re on the right track.
No surprises: Satisfy your users by delivering a solution that meets their needs and preferences. Satisfy your stakeholders by delivering results on time and within budget.
Depending on the size, scope, and complexity of each project, a different implementation methodology called Success by Design may be used.
With this methodology the solution architect can engage with project teams through strategic workshops that are aligned to key project stages with clear goals, actions, and deliverables. Each workshop has been designed with specific goals and maps to relevant success measures for the project. A workshop is essentially an alignment exercise that allows the solution architect to assess if best practices are being followed and identify and highlight issues or potential risks that can derail the project. While Success by Design offers prescriptive guidance for success, be prepared to make minor adjustments to the stages and details that are relevant to your specific projects.
Success by Design offers solution architects a framework for effective engagement with customers in support of their specific goals and outcomes. This guidance provides a model for proactive engagement with customers to have a greater impact on success rather than only handling reactive escalations.
Additionally, Success by Design reduces the amount of reactive issue escalation by using active course correction throughout the project. Frequent knowledge transfer enables cross-pollination of ideas, learning, and best practices across projects. This feature will ensure that business goals are strategically aligned with product capabilities to maximize the value that your customers will receive from the platform.