Methodology And Approach

Over the years, Encora has developed a comprehensive collection of methodologies for each of the services we offer. For instance, we have a 4-stage platform porting methodology, a 5-stage product development methodology and a 3-stage sustenance engineering methodology. Each stage of a methodology consists of a clear set of activities, participants, milestones, deliverables and entry/exit criteria.

Each methodology is further supplemented with a collection of templates, checklists, guidelines and dashboards that provide a good starting point for anyone willing to learn/deploy these methodologies.

Some of the common aspects of our delivery methodologies are:

• Each methodology can be adapted or tailored to specific client environments and can be married to their existing development practices.
• Each methodology is tool-centric and best-practices driven. This feature enables us to keep them light-weight and yet be most effective.
• There is a deep emphasis on data collection and metrics analysis. This helps us develop patterns of success, perform root-cause analysis and assists us in developing more effective forecasts.
• Each methodology is enabled for “distributed-delivery”. We have carefully defined task interfaces in a manner that part of the project can be delivered from offshore or an offsite location.
• End users play a key role in the requirements collection, system analysis and solution conceptualization. This enables both functional and technical stakeholders to speak the same language and eliminate miscommunication on the features/functions required from the system.
• All our methodologies make heavy use of visualization and simulation techniques, simplifying the complex task of communicating requirements across all the members of the project.
• Architecture plays a central role, especially where new products/technologies are being deployed. This enables us to deliver a solution that is robust, adaptable and maintainable.
• Special emphasis is given to the development of reusable components. A reuse-driven approach leverages pre-built components that improve the quality, time-to-market and cost-of-product delivery.