Proactive technology research, industry trend analysis, and developing next generation network architecture using modern networking technology and providing production deployable solutions are key functions of the team.

More Uses of the SDN Toolkit:


• Ensure you are deeply invested in learning about new technologies and vendors with aspirations of growing into a solutions architecture role.
  
  

• Engage in continuous self improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of relevant technologies security, Data Center, SDN, public cloud, networking, endpoint, etc.
  
  

• Assure your planning analyzes, designs, and develops system functional specifications consulting with users to determine hardware, software, and system functional requirements.
  
  

• Direct: an extraordinarily intelligent, rigorous thinker who can operate successfully among very bright and charismatic people.
  
  

• Ensure your organization complies; continuous self improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies Data Center, SDN, public cloud, security, networking, etc.
  
  

• Control: partner with internal teams to create monthly shipping estimates, weekly tracking and execution of sales targets.
  
  

• Remain informed of enablement work efforts and identify implications impacts or changes to overall architecture.
  
  

• Create innovative solutions using automation to replace manual process and the mindset to automate everything, all the time.
  
  

• Pilot: conduct routine network hardware and software audits to ensure compliance with established policies and configuration guidelines.
  
  

• Write highly complex user exits to transition large legacy systems to your organizations Unified Communications standard.
  
  

• Use expert level administration and optimization of hosts and servers to ensure high availability and appropriate Resource Management.
  
  

• Coordinate: F5 help organizations seamlessly scale cloud, Data Center, telecommunications, and software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications and services to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
  
  

• Initiate and lead interpersonal efforts to improve overall group productivity and test effectiveness.
  
  

• Provide leadership and guidance for holistic Network strategies, ensuring strategies align to overall Business and Systems direction.
  
  

• Install and configure operating systems, software, and hardware components, and clearly document the design, maintenance, and support procedures for routine tasks to leverage IT support staff.
  
  

• Be accountable for providing IT technical input in the development and maintenance of software defined networking (SDN) technologies.
  
  

• Audit: usually participating in or leading complex network design, performance engineering or Problem Resolution projects.
  
  

• Make sure that your group develops team and project objectives and prioritizes own work and direct reports work based on Customer Requirements and internal guidelines.
  
  

• Provide input into proper resource and schedule management framework used by project stakeholders, Technical Program Managers, and Engineering Managers.
  
  

• Ensure you participate; would you cherish to develop code using the most modern development methods using a Test Driven Development focus.
  
  

• Methodize: leverage technical skill sets to explore, evaluate, and deliver new technologies, techniques, and tools to advance the capabilities of the team.
  
  

• Maintain a proactive approach to customer empathy, identifying Customer Satisfaction concerns and managing customer expectations.
  
  

• Establish: closely work with field/customer facing teams to incorporate feedback into internal test phases / build standard methodologies.
  
  

• Manage relationships with customers at all levels enable parallel top down sales through executive relationships and bottoms up sales through teams.
  
  

• Manage marketing and stakeholders and creating go to market strategies for new products, coordinating and communicating plans across your organization.
  
  

• Confirm your planning uses discretion and independent judgment to proactively look for areas of improvement in system related Business Processes, using new technologies that can improve efficiency and enhance competitive advantage.
  
  

• Ensure you unite; build and deploy strategies to use consistent Design Patterns across platforms, infrastructure, and applications.
  
  

• Organize: in AWS, you are nimble and Agile, like being part of a startup, innovating while collaborating with smart group of people around you.
  
  

• Initiate: software defined WAN has its roots in software defined networking (SDN), the underlying principle of which is to abstract the network hardware and transport characteristics from the applications that use the network.
  
  


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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. What data is gathered?
   
   

2. Who will be using the results of the measurement activities?
   
   

3. What will drive SDN change?
   
   

4. Is supporting SDN documentation required?
   
   

5. What do you need to qualify?
   
   

6. What SDN metrics are outputs of the process?
   
   

7. What are the essentials of internal SDN management?
   
   

8. What are the long-term SDN goals?
   
   

9. What new services of functionality will be implemented next with SDN?
   
   

10. What users will be impacted?
    
    


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


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


• 62 step-by-step SDN Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 SDN 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 SDN project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?
   
   

4. Closing Process Group: Did the SDN project team have enough people to execute the SDN 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 SDN 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 SDN Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 SDN project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 SDN Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 SDN 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 SDN 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 SDN 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 SDN 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 SDN project with this in-depth SDN Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose SDN 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 SDN 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 SDN investments work better.

This SDN 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.