Continuous Monitoring Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Continuous Monitoring 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 Continuous Monitoring improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:


1. How do you optimally design, configure, and deploy a cloud environment to support your compute workloads with the most resilient, scalable, and cost efficient approaches?
   
   

2. Is there any recent operating experience related to baseline IPs or to risk significant areas that requires attention or changes to the baseline inspection program?
   
   

3. How do you best use cloud services, and leverage the many options, consumption and procurement models, pricing discounts, and billing & payment methods?
   
   

4. Have you developed a set of leading risk indicators that is forward looking and is based on continuous monitoring and analysis of critical resources?
   
   

5. Is detecting and risk scoring vulnerabilities that leave a system vulnerable to malware/botnets without detecting the malware itself acceptable?
   
   

6. Have you developed a set of leading risk indicators that is forward looking, based on a continuous monitoring and analysis of conditions?
   
   

7. What pm checks lead to results which can be covered in other ways as continuous monitoring or as part of other, more efficient routines?
   
   

8. Does top management conduct continuous monitoring and evaluation to keep track on the progress of strategy implementation process?
   
   

9. Are existing feedback loops that cover policy implementation, monitoring and amendments perceived as sufficient by stakeholders?
   
   

10. What are the usage scenarios of continuous monitoring, continuous auditing and continuous assurance according to accountants?
    
    


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 Continuous Monitoring book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: Are Continuous Monitoring project results verified and Continuous Monitoring project documents archived?
   
   

2. Team Operating Agreement: What are the boundaries (organizational or geographic) within which you operate?
   
   

3. Executing Process Group: How do you prevent staff are just doing busywork to pass the time?
   
   

4. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree can all members engage in open and interactive considerations?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Are trial balances taken weekly for general ledgers for all funds?
   
   

6. Risk Audit: Have top software and customer managers formally committed to support the Continuous Monitoring project?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: How do you ensure whether the goods were supplied or works executed in time and properly recorded in measurement books and stock/works registers after inspection?
   
   

8. Human Resource Management Plan: Are Continuous Monitoring project team roles and responsibilities identified and documented?
   
   

9. Risk Audit: Have reasonable steps been taken to reduce the risks to acceptable levels?
   
   

10. WBS Dictionary: Are the variances between budgeted and actual indirect costs identified and analyzed at the level of assigned responsibility for control (indirect pool, department, etc.)?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Continuous Monitoring project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Continuous Monitoring project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Continuous Monitoring 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 Continuous Monitoring 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 Continuous Monitoring 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 Continuous Monitoring 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 Continuous Monitoring project with this in-depth Continuous Monitoring Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Continuous Monitoring 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 Continuous Monitoring 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 Continuous Monitoring investments work better.

This Continuous Monitoring 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.