Cross Functional Team Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cross Functional Team 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 Cross Functional Team improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:


1. Are you enabling employees to work together across organizational silos to tackle the crossfunctional challenges that allow your organization to win?
   
   

2. Who will be using the system, and how will the system need to accommodate varying skill levels across a cross functional team?
   
   

3. Have you ever been on a project where cross team dysfunction almost brought all forward progress to a halt?
   
   

4. Does the bcm manager ensure cross functional resources are available and appropriately engaged when needed?
   
   

5. Is there clarity on which knowledge and learning functions should be situated internally versus externally?
   
   

6. Do you systematically facilitate targeted knowledge sharing activities at all levels of your organization?
   
   

7. How do the benefits and risks of deploying software in the cloud compare with that of staying on premise?
   
   

8. How can linkages across and within issues be exploited in transboundary environmental dispute resolution?
   
   

9. What is the greatest uncertainty facing your organization, and what do you do to resolve or navigate it?
   
   

10. What has been the role of the chief executive and senior management team in the change program and team?
    
    


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 Cross Functional Team book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity List: Are the required resources available or need to be acquired?
   
   

2. Project Schedule: How effectively were issues able to be resolved without impacting the Cross Functional Team project Schedule or Budget?
   
   

3. Variance Analysis: Do work packages consist of discrete tasks which are adequately described?
   
   

4. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree do team members frequently explore the teams purpose and its implications?
   
   

5. Human Resource Management Plan: Has a quality assurance plan been developed for the Cross Functional Team project?
   
   

6. Planning Process Group: To what extent are the participating departments coordinating with each other?
   
   

7. Lessons Learned: How well were your expectations met regarding the extent of your involvement in the Cross Functional Team project (effort, time commitments, etc.)?
   
   

8. Schedule Management Plan: Have activity relationships and interdependencies within tasks been adequately identified?
   
   

9. Executing Process Group: How could stakeholders negatively impact your Cross Functional Team project?
   
   

10. Probability and Impact Matrix: Is the present organizational structure for handling the Cross Functional Team project sufficient?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cross Functional Team project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cross Functional Team project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Cross Functional Team 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 Cross Functional Team 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 Cross Functional Team 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 Cross Functional Team 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 Cross Functional Team project with this in-depth Cross Functional Team Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cross Functional Team 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 Cross Functional Team 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 Cross Functional Team investments work better.

This Cross Functional Team 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.