Infrastructure Capabilities Toolkit

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Organize Infrastructure Capabilities: periodically review and analyze software and hardware needs, recommend changes and upgrades to provide efficient, effective and timely service to the users at all levels in your organization.

More Uses of the Infrastructure Capabilities Toolkit:

  • Coordinate Infrastructure Capabilities: implement automated Infrastructure Capabilities like backups, Security Tools, and monitoring.

  • Translate organizational level Business Requirements and use cases into IT/IS Infrastructure Capabilities verified to meet the requirements.

  • Perform technical skills related to architecture and Infrastructure Capabilities as integration architecture, Data Architecture, Data Warehousing infrastructure and data delivery infrastructure.

  • Analyze outputs stemming from exercises for the development, architecture, and Infrastructure Capabilities of persistent training and test environments.

  • Supervise Infrastructure Capabilities: document, assess, influence and synthesize Business Requirements to develop, enable and advance Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure Capabilities.

  • Head Infrastructure Capabilities: Capacity Management create and manage forecasting processes designed to ensure computing, network, support, and other Infrastructure Capabilities are adequate for business environment needs.

  • Orchestrate Infrastructure Capabilities: conduct Security Audits, identify weaknesses and keep your network and infrastructure secure at all times.

  • Assure your organization complies; monitors the performance of your organizations Desktop Infrastructure and makes suggestions for improving efficiency.

  • Take on the task of moving the environment to a serverless infrastructure where possible.

  • Develop Infrastructure Capabilities: infrastructure support, analyzing network use/design and participates in Future Planning of infrastructure.

  • Confirm your operation ensures Thin Client and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) devices interconnect seamlessly with file servers, mail servers, etc.

  • Ensure your group analyzes application and infrastructure portfolios, identifying dependencies and common platform components, Cost Benefit Analysis and assessing migration feasibility.

  • Analyze Cloud Infrastructure requirements, scalability and performance needs, related product and current infrastructure issues to help create an infrastructure backlog and influence Product Engineering backlog to optimize cloud scalability and performance.

  • Confirm your enterprise complies; monitors and maintains systems to ensure Critical Infrastructure Team always achieves the highest level of availability.

  • Provide expert Technical Support for domain management, O365, infrastructure security and server maintenance in cooperation with other IT Departments.

  • Be accountable for migrating or deploying infrastructure using the Azure Portal or Code (Azure Resource Management, CLI or PowerShell).

  • Ensure you invent; lead projects to design and implement new and upgraded applications, System Integrations, and automated solutions in support of the Engineering and Infrastructure teams.

  • Set up, configure, maintain and enhance proper infrastructure to support a large scale Data Analytics environment.

  • Establish and maintain regular written and in person communications with the client and organizations executives, decision makers, stakeholders, department heads, and End Users regarding pertinent Data Center activities.

  • Ensure your group serves as primary/first escalation point for infrastructure support and troubleshooting, provides guidance and direction in resolution of escalated issues and/or complex production, application or system problems.

  • Head Infrastructure Capabilities: partner with the development infrastructure and tools engineers to create direction for the teaM And A plan that can be delivered on and iterated on as things change.

  • Take ownership for the architecture, design, implementation, testing and operations of overall infrastructure Automation Platform.

  • Ensure you allocate; good in the establishment of standard processes, infrastructure and training to meet Customer Expectations related to Technical Design, scalability, security and Regulatory Compliance.

  • Consult with Project Teams to identify when it is necessary to modify Infrastructure Services to accommodate project needs.

  • Secure that your organization performs day to day monitoring of infrastructure usage and Performance Metrics, detect and resolve or escalate operational issues by consulting with Technical Support staff to resolve service issues.

  • Consult with administration, department managers, and infrastructure managers to exchange information, present new approaches, and to consider equipment/system changes.

  • Lead high level strategic meetings with clients about IT infrastructure and generate Project Plans based upon meetings.

  • Create and configure Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), Platform As A Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.

  • Establish that your organization leads the applications integration and design considerations among multiple applications groups; advises the system and infrastructure configuration from Application Performance, scalability, and capacity perspective.

  • Maintain the integrity and strategic development of your organizations information and Communications Infrastructure, and the systems infrastructure for mission critical functions.

  • Ensure you liaise; lead, plan and deliver new and/or existing strategic platform capabilities that create tangiblE Business value.

  • Coordinate Infrastructure Capabilities: leverage multiple sources of analytics (web analytics, Voice Of Customer, competitor intelligence) to understand web site performance and visitor behavior.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Infrastructure Capabilities 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 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Infrastructure Capabilities improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What assumptions are made about the solution and approach?

  2. Scope of sensitive information?

  3. What are the implications of the one Critical Infrastructure Capabilities decision 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years from now?

  4. Can you integrate quality Management And Risk management?

  5. How do you build the right business case?

  6. Where do you need Infrastructure Capabilities improvement?

  7. How do you know that any Infrastructure Capabilities analysis is complete and comprehensive?

  8. What are your operating costs?

  9. What are the costs of delaying Infrastructure Capabilities action?

  10. How can you measure Infrastructure Capabilities in a systematic way?


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 Infrastructure Capabilities book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Infrastructure Capabilities project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Infrastructure Capabilities Project Team have enough people to execute the Infrastructure Capabilities Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Infrastructure Capabilities Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Infrastructure Capabilities project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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 Infrastructure Capabilities 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 Infrastructure Capabilities 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 Infrastructure Capabilities project with this in-depth Infrastructure Capabilities Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Infrastructure Capabilities 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 Infrastructure Capabilities 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 Infrastructure Capabilities investments work better.

This Infrastructure Capabilities 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.