Azure DevOps Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Azure DevOps Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Azure DevOps related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Azure DevOps specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Azure DevOps Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Azure DevOps improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. Will your organization provide more detail on the rough order of magnitude for upcoming Work Orders or any representative services/product that could be procured with initial Orders?
   
   

2. How will your organization determine/deal with error/defect in a multi vendor environment where code interdependencies may obfuscate source of the error/defect?
   
   

3. What should you use to implement the code quality restriction on the release pipeline for the investment planning applications suite?
   
   

4. What are the formalized processes and guidance for implementing the appropriate compliance controls into new software applications?
   
   

5. Do developers expectations about privacy related to development related activity at work differ when the interface changes?
   
   

6. Will your organization be willing to consider alternate technologies for Legacy Modernization and Modularization Services?
   
   

7. Can your organization provide information regarding the number and size of task orders under each of the six task areas?
   
   

8. What would be the first step or steps to applying a DevOps approach to an already deployed application and database?
   
   

9. Is that something that is doable and is there any special steps that you need to take on your Partners behalf?
   
   

10. How does your model for security change if you assume that your infrastructure has already been breached?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Azure DevOps book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Azure DevOps self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Azure DevOps Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Azure DevOps areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Azure DevOps Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Azure DevOps projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Azure DevOps Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Azure DevOps project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Operating Agreement: Confidentiality: how will confidential information be handled?
   
   

2. Quality Audit: Do all staff have the necessary authority and resources to deliver what is expected of them?
   
   

3. Procurement Management Plan: Is the current scope of the Azure DevOps project substantially different than that originally defined?
   
   

4. Project Schedule: Azure DevOps project work estimates Who is managing the work estimate quality of work tasks in the Azure DevOps project schedule?
   
   

5. Executing Process Group: Could a new application negatively affect the current IT infrastructure?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: What functions does this software provide that cannot be done easily using other tools such as a spreadsheet or database?
   
   

7. Probability and Impact Assessment: Supply/demand Azure DevOps projections and trends; what are the levels of accuracy?
   
   

8. Probability and Impact Assessment: Do you have a consistent repeatable process that is actually used?
   
   

9. Activity Cost Estimates: Does the activity use a common approach or business function to deliver its results?
   
   

10. Probability and Impact Matrix: Workarounds are determined during which risk management process?


 
Step-by-step and complete Azure DevOps Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Azure DevOps project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Azure DevOps project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Azure DevOps project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Azure DevOps project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Azure DevOps project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Azure DevOps project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Azure DevOps project with this in-depth Azure DevOps Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Azure DevOps projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Azure DevOps and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Azure DevOps investments work better.

This Azure DevOps All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.