Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Change and Release Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Change and Release Management 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 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Change and Release Management improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:
- Why wait that long to deploy self contained batches of changes that have already been built and tested and could deliver business advantage immediately?
- When vendors release new versions of applications, will you have to update the clients, or is there a way to centrally push out configuration changes?
- Are the percentages to be spent at any point in the contract term or must some portion of the participation be done in each year of the contract?
- Are product managers able to change the circumstances by replacing team members, asking for more funding, or pushing back release timelines?
- Do you feedback information about releases and outcomes to your change management and incident and service request processes?
- Do your software plans include developing and maintaining a software accomplishments summary or software configuration index?
- Will the selected vendor be responsible for installing new versions/releases of the applications from the software vendor?
- How has the time changed to see a corresponding cyberattack after a patch is released for a low priority vulnerability?
- Are there any specific changes, features, or issues with the model or tool you would like to see in the final release?
- Is there a way to save and load on demand pre defined hardware and software configurations for the entire platform?
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 Change and Release Management book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Change and Release Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Change and Release Management project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Procurement Audit: Are trial balances taken weekly for general ledgers for all funds?
- Activity Attributes: Which method produces the more accurate cost assignment?
- Cost Management Plan: What does this mean to a cost or scheduler manager?
- Requirements Traceability Matrix: What are the chronologies, contingencies, consequences, criteria?
- Human Resource Management Plan: What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the Change and Release Management project?
- Team Directory: How and in what format should information be presented?
- Cost Management Plan: Is Change and Release Management project work proceeding in accordance with the original Change and Release Management project schedule?
- WBS Dictionary: Do work packages consist of discrete tasks which are adequately described?
- Cost Management Plan: The definition of the Change and Release Management project scope what needs to be accomplished?
- Resource Breakdown Structure: What is the difference between % Complete and % work?
Step-by-step and complete Change and Release Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Change and Release Management project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Change and Release Management project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management project with this in-depth Change and Release Management Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management 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 Change and Release Management investments work better.
This Change and Release Management 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.
