Software License Management Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Software License Management 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 Software License Management improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:

  1. How does management ensure that due diligence is performed prior to changing third party product or service providers, as software vendors or third party audit providers?

  2. Are there opportunities to renegotiate software licensing agreements based on the way you actually utilize software versus the way original contracts were negotiated?

  3. Are you looking to consolidate your engineering software license information and utilization monitoring under one license management tool providing best practices?

  4. Are your existing SAM capabilities integrated with your IT security capabilities in order to better identify security vulnerabilities in your software inventory?

  5. Does your organization have sufficient and appropriate licenses in place to cover greater use of tools, technology, and software to support remote working?

  6. What hardware components, operating system, and software licenses are necessary for the vendor to provide to enable use of your organizations network?

  7. Do people really spend the weekends helping annoying new people install free software because it has a more efficient development methodology?

  8. When an application is on a machine that is disconnected from the network without exiting the product, how long is the license held?

  9. Does the supplier charge for the software license, is it charged annually or is it offered free of charge with no annual fees?

  10. Is your organization managing software licenses to minimize costs while maintaining compliance with applicable requirements?


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 Software License Management book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Variance Analysis: Are overhead cost budgets established for each department which has authority to incur overhead costs?

  2. Procurement Management Plan: Are enough systems & user personnel assigned to the Software License Management project?

  3. Assumption and Constraint Log: Are there cosmetic errors that hinder readability and comprehension?

  4. Probability and Impact Matrix: Can it be enlarged by drawing people from other areas of your organization?

  5. Initiating Process Group: Do you understand the quality and control criteria that must be achieved for successful Software License Management project completion?

  6. Project Performance Report: To what degree can team members meet frequently enough to accomplish the teams ends?

  7. Procurement Management Plan: Do you have the reasons why the changes to your organizational systems and capabilities are required?

  8. Activity Duration Estimates: What is the BEST thing for the Software License Management project manager to do?

  9. Stakeholder Management Plan: Were Software License Management project team members involved in the development of activity & task decomposition?

  10. Schedule Management Plan: Is the plan consistent with industry best practices?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Software License Management project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Software License Management project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Software License Management 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 Software License Management 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 Software License Management 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 Software License Management 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 Software License Management project with this in-depth Software License Management Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Software License Management 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 Software License Management 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 Software License Management investments work better.

This Software License Management 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.