Data as a Service Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Data as a Service 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 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Data as a Service improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. What kind of protected health information is in that backup and how do you need to replicate it across the environment?
   
   

2. Does the system have the capability to back up time sensitive data like open files, emails, and databases?
   
   

3. What are the impacts of wider technological, social or cultural trends on your expectations as customers?
   
   

4. Is the root cause of data quality issues easily identified and are there plans to correct and mitigate?
   
   

5. How important is security as a factor in the design and implementation of your Big Data initiatives?
   
   

6. What information is generated by, consumed by, processed on, stored in, and retrieved by the system?
   
   

7. Which web technology should the service provider use to build an interface that users can leverage?
   
   

8. What is a common mechanism of communications among virtual machines running in a cloud environment?
   
   

9. Are the information security risks estimated with reference to your organizations actual situation?
   
   

10. Will multiple researchers access the data, or will only one researcher be performing the analysis?
    
    


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 Data as a Service book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


• 62 step-by-step Data as a Service Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Data as a Service project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree does the teams work approach provide opportunity for members to engage in open interaction?
   
   

2. Cost Management Plan: Are the Data as a Service project team members located locally to the users/stakeholders?
   
   

3. Cost Management Plan: Are changes in scope (deliverable commitments) agreed to by all affected groups & individuals?
   
   

4. Probability and Impact Matrix: How can you understand and diagnose risks and identify sources?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Are the Data as a Service project team members located locally to the users/stakeholders?
   
   

6. Project Performance Report: To what degree can the cognitive capacity of individuals accommodate the flow of information?
   
   

7. Risk Management Plan: Are end-users enthusiastically committed to the Data as a Service project and the system/product to be built?
   
   

8. Quality Management Plan: How does your organization manage training and evaluate its effectiveness?
   
   

9. Communications Management Plan: What help do you and your team need from the stakeholder?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Are the people assigned to the Data as a Service project sufficiently qualified?


 
Step-by-step and complete Data as a Service Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Data as a Service project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Data as a Service project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Data as a Service 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 Data as a Service 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 Data as a Service 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 Data as a Service 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 Data as a Service project with this in-depth Data as a Service Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Data as a Service 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 Data as a Service 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 Data as a Service investments work better.

This Data as a Service 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.