Cloud Center of Excellence Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Cloud Center of Excellence Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Cloud Center of Excellence 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 Cloud Center of Excellence specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Cloud Center of Excellence 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cloud Center of Excellence improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:

  1. Does moving from traditional enterprise software to cloud based open source platforms help you free from the stronghold of large enterprise technology companies?

  2. What is the culture of the program, in terms of its commitment to excellence, its approaches to communication and problem solving, and past leadership styles?

  3. Which approach would improve the availability and durability of the system while decreasing the processing latency and minimizing costs?

  4. Will you continue to get good talent to manage your non cloud IT setup while the ecosystem appears to be adopting cloud faster?

  5. Does your organization need to securely integrate a variety of content across teams and groups internally or externally?

  6. How confident are you that your organization has visibility into all aspects of your organizations public cloud costs?

  7. Which solution will provide a consistent user experience that will allow the application and database tiers to scalar?

  8. How many organizations have sought to gain intelligence rather than using assumptions to formulate improvement plans?

  9. Are you concerned about the health of your application APIs and other vulnerabilities found at application level?

  10. Can cloud reduce the IT infrastructure provisioning time which will allow your technology team to move faster?


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 Cloud Center of Excellence book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Cloud Center of Excellence Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Cloud Center of Excellence project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its systems for communicating with and among staff are appropriately effective and constructive?

  2. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its systems for providing high quality consultancy services to external parties are appropriately effective and constructive?

  3. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree can the team ensure that all members are individually and jointly accountable for the teams purpose, goals, approach, and work-products?

  4. Risk Management Plan: Do the requirements require the creation of components that are unlike anything your organization has previously built?

  5. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What resources (both financial and non-financial) are available/needed?

  6. Schedule Management Plan: Were Cloud Center of Excellence project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?

  7. Cost Management Plan: Are internal Cloud Center of Excellence project status meetings held at reasonable intervals?

  8. Change Log: Is the change backward compatible without limitations?

  9. Cost Management Plan: Is current scope of the Cloud Center of Excellence project substantially different than that originally defined?

  10. Initiating Process Group: Do you understand all business (operational), technical, resource and vendor risks associated with the Cloud Center of Excellence project?

 
Step-by-step and complete Cloud Center of Excellence Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Cloud Center of Excellence project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Cloud Center of Excellence project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Cloud Center of Excellence 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 Cloud Center of Excellence 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 Cloud Center of Excellence 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 Cloud Center of Excellence 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 Cloud Center of Excellence project with this in-depth Cloud Center of Excellence Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Cloud Center of Excellence 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 Cloud Center of Excellence 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 Cloud Center of Excellence investments work better.

This Cloud Center of Excellence 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.