In its fundamental values Daumas Autheman et Associés sets very high the concept of method. To meet the needs of our customers, we act according to the principle of 'Homo Faber'. Our tools are an extension of your thinking. Whatever the type of intervention, we never act without reference to a method. Depending on the type of mission, we take the best method.

Project management

Managing a project is based on 3 axes: planning, management, control. A methodology is the basis of managing of a project. It is essential to carry out this task. Understanding of the project held, qualification of equipment to be used, the identification of good practices, the anticipation of traps, communication, all these fundamental issues are more easily and thoroughly addressed when they are in a method.

Information system design

Today the need to use a design method is more to prove it, everyone knows that it would be pointless to go on road design without to be fitted with a method and previously acquired experience in its implementation.
A design method has four components mandatory:

• Thinking (the paradigm of the method)
• How to model (to build models, an engineering technique allowing to represent a system)
• How to organize (the approach to follow)
• The means to achieve (tools to aid in the implementation of the method).

Audit

To carry out an audit is conducting investigations to make a diagnosis and to propose corrective actions identified shortcomings. In the field of information systems audit methods help to measure existing practices to a repository of "good practices", and then to make an inventory of the risks on the activity of the company.

Quality

As far as quality is concerned, the word method is completed by the words 'Process', 'Model', 'Maturity', ‘Standard’. In the governance of information systems, the quality approach corresponds to a set of best practices for quality management repositories. Several methods are currently a resounding success for certification or international recognition of maturity level.