IT Governance Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT Governance 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 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IT Governance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Does/will the effect of current competitive interactions inhibit the population from achieving viability criteria established in the recovery plan?
   
   

2. Do you gravitate toward strategic improvement initiatives in finance & operational excellence, commercial project management and project controls?
   
   

3. Does/will the effect of climate change inhibit the population from achieving viability criteria established in the recovery plan?
   
   

4. Is the strategic plan supported by individual tactical operating plans that consider IT requirements and deliverables?
   
   

5. What are the governance requirements for operational resilience that other organizations need to consider, and why?
   
   

6. Is the it governance clearly defined regarding decision rights and accountability in it strategic decision making?
   
   

7. What capabilities and attributes do risk professionals need to lead and influence within a GRC environment?
   
   

8. Does the adaptive governance approach transform a specific space physically by modifying material objects?
   
   

9. What is the most important skill your organizational leader should have to succeed in a digital workplace?
   
   

10. What are your business objectives, what are your business challenges, and what are you trying to achieve?
    
    


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 IT Governance book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Source Selection Criteria: When and what information can be considered with offerors regarding past performance?
   
   

2. Project Scope Statement: Are there backup strategies for key members of the IT Governance project?
   
   

3. Cost Management Plan: Have all involved IT Governance project stakeholders and work groups committed to the IT Governance project?
   
   

4. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree are the skill areas critical to team performance present?
   
   

5. Initiating Process Group: How well defined and documented were the IT Governance project management processes you chose to use?
   
   

6. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Which conditions out of the control of the management are crucial for the achievement of the outputs?
   
   

7. Activity Duration Estimates: Is a work breakdown structure created to organize and to confirm the scope of each IT Governance project?
   
   

8. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its staff are presenting original work, and properly acknowledging the work of others?
   
   

9. Process Improvement Plan: What actions are needed to address the problems and achieve the goals?
   
   

10. Stakeholder Management Plan: Is a payment system in place with proper reviews and approvals?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Governance project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IT Governance project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 IT Governance 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 IT Governance 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 IT Governance 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 IT Governance 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 IT Governance project with this in-depth IT Governance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT Governance 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 IT Governance 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 IT Governance investments work better.

This IT Governance 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.