Configuration Management Database Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Configuration Management Database 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 Configuration Management Database improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. How do other organizations keep track of the attack surface and ensure there are adequate controls to minimise the risk of exploitation by malicious attackers?
   
   

2. How the product can lead to be possible to see how the software product before setting up the end users contribute to project requirements it document?
   
   

3. How do you populate and update data in your CMDB, ensure data quality, and manage the overall lifecycle of CIs?
   
   

4. What is the effect on your CMDB when an application moves from development to test and from test to production?
   
   

5. Are sufficient it resources and infrastructure available to meet required enterprise strategic objectives?
   
   

6. What critical business processes are dependent on IT, and what are the requirements of business processes?
   
   

7. Does the tool facilitate the integration and association of CMDB data with the Change Management records?
   
   

8. How to encourage and support the discovery processes that occur when solutions are in search of problems?
   
   

9. Does the tool facilitate the enforcement and coordination of Release validation and testing activities?
   
   

10. Does the tool facilitate the integration and association of CMDB data with Problem Management records?
    
    


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 Configuration Management Database book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Requirements Management Plan: Describe the process for rejecting the Configuration Management Database project requirements. Who has the authority to reject Configuration Management Database project requirements?
   
   

2. Team Operating Agreement: How does teaming fit in with overall organizational goals and meet organizational needs?
   
   

3. Requirements Traceability Matrix: Do you have a clear understanding of all subcontracts in place?
   
   

4. Team Member Status Report: Will the staff do training or is that done by a third party?
   
   

5. Cost Baseline: Have all approved changes to the Configuration Management Database project requirement been identified and impact on the performance, cost, and schedule baselines documented?
   
   

6. Risk Management Plan: Is the customer technically sophisticated in the product area?
   
   

7. Human Resource Management Plan: Is a stakeholder management plan in place that covers topics?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: What coalitions might build around the issues being tackled?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Assessment: Will there be an increase in the political conservatism?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: What are two suggestions for ensuring adequate change control on Configuration Management Database projects that involve outside contracts?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Configuration Management Database project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Configuration Management Database project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Configuration Management Database 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 Configuration Management Database 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 Configuration Management Database 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 Configuration Management Database 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 Configuration Management Database project with this in-depth Configuration Management Database Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Configuration Management Database 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 Configuration Management Database 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 Configuration Management Database investments work better.

This Configuration Management Database 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.