Citrix Toolkit

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Quickly diagnose production issues, document designs and procedures, scaling the infrastructure to meet demands and proactively ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability, while participating in on call rotation.

More Uses of the Citrix Toolkit:

  • Ensure your operation participates in the development and implementation of Citrix related operational Procedures And Standards.

  • Provide guidance, Thought Leadership, and mentorship to Development Teams to build/deploy cloud applications infrastructure.

  • Assure your corporation develops standards, best practices and documentation for providing support for all PC, desktop, laptops, and end user devices.

  • Support Cloud Migration strategy, tactics, and implementation for Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

  • Evaluate, plan and integrate technical infrastructure solutions with a secure infrastructure environment, production stability, and performance.

  • Ensure you formulate; recommend, implement and assure compliance with policy and procedures affecting enterprise technology infrastructure.

  • Control: research and recommend innovative solutions and where possible automate approaches for System Administration tasks.

  • Provide analytical support in the conceptualization, development and implementation of complex, multiple inter linked systems.

  • Lead overall Project Planning, tracking, issues resolution, vendor coordination, and execution for infrastructure.

  • Maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, as automated provisioning of addresses and VLANs with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

  • Be certain that your enterprise supports Software Testing, deployment, and maintenance activities by correcting programming errors and coding software enhancements.

  • Be accountable for System Architecture, maintenance, tuning, health checks, Capacity Planning and overall system performance.

  • Secure that your strategy performs tasks associated with evaluation, design, installation, configuration, upgrades, testing, documentation, and expansion for PC and operating system technologies.

  • Manage knowledge and skills in one or more areas of network telecommunication, System Administration, analysis, design and Database Management in terms of concepts, techniques and operating principles.

  • Ensure your organization provides second level end user support, installation, training, and configuration for hardware and software components.

  • Maintain confidentiality with regard to the information being processed, stored or accessed by the network.

  • Warrant that your team provides application installation and troubleshooting of Citrix XenApp suite of products, as provisioning server, desktop delivery control, virtual desktop images/target devices.

  • Govern: proactive monitoring of environments and identifying and document areas for improved efficiencies, cost reductions or improved availability.

  • Steer: work as a team member with other technical staff, as applications development and client services to ensure connectivity and compatibility between systems.

  • Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records.

  • Identify: first and foremost, culture and a team centric mentality are one of the most important attributes you look for in a future team member.

  • Secure that your strategy performs Requirements Gathering, initial engineering design, platform/environment integration and evolution planning to support highly reliable, available, scalable and cost effective computing.

  • Arrange that your business participates in provisioning activities, processes and standards for system wide applications related to Virtual Desktop and XenApp Infrastructure.

  • Diagnose and resolve unique, nonrecurring problems associated with Application Software and operating systems; determine the source of problems and classify level, priority and nature.

  • Head: review user requirements and provide direction in the identification of problem and potential resolution.

  • Lead high level strategic meetings with clients about IT infrastructure and generate project plans based upon meetings.

  • Oversee: design and perform server and Citrix related security audits, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with your organizations Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategies.

  • Provide design, implementation, analysis, and documentation services around server based computing solutions.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Citrix Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Citrix 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 Citrix specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Citrix 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 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Citrix improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Do your employees have the opportunity to do what they do best everyday?

  2. What actually has to improve and by how much?

  3. What are the expected Citrix results?

  4. How often will data be collected for measures?

  5. What is the craziest thing you can do?

  6. How can you measure Citrix in a systematic way?

  7. Which Citrix data should be retained?

  8. Is pre-qualification of suppliers carried out?

  9. Why do you expend time and effort to implement measurement, for whom?

  10. Are you missing Citrix opportunities?


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 Citrix book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Citrix 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 Citrix Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Citrix 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 Citrix 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 Citrix projects with the 62 implementation resources:

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Citrix project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Citrix project team have enough people to execute the Citrix project plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Citrix project plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Citrix Project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Citrix 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 Citrix 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 Citrix 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 Citrix 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 Citrix project with this in-depth Citrix Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Citrix 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 Citrix 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 Citrix investments work better.

This Citrix 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.