Analysis of Alternatives Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Analysis of Alternatives 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 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Analysis of Alternatives improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:

  1. Does your organizations strategy effectively recognize the varying types of risk it will encounter, and is management taking adequate steps to ensure that the appropriate skills are available?

  2. Is it possible to review the financial plan or budget and identify the total investment being made in each element of the strategy or in each initiative defined in the tactical plan?

  3. What is known about the effectiveness of alternative conservation practices and systems in achieving particular environmental objectives; which practices are the best?

  4. What characteristics of debt or debt composition would mitigate key sources of volatility to the budget or provide some buffer to the impact of identified risks?

  5. How is the natural environment changing and what impact might that have on your organizations operations and ability to source raw materials?

  6. Does your organization have the management capacity and capability to manage effectively the portfolio of projects that are commissioned?

  7. Which ways exist to fulfill a specific requirement taking the generic domain knowledge and the correlated requirements into account?

  8. Are you locking in high fixed costs or creating a variable cost structure that can adapt to rapid changes in the level of activity?

  9. Will the pricing and results be made public so you understand what the market alternatives are, or will that remain confidential?

  10. How critical do you believe data center consolidation is to your organizations ability to operate effectively and efficiently?


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 Analysis of Alternatives book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Analysis of Alternatives Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Analysis of Alternatives project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Activity Duration Estimates: What is the critical path for this Analysis of Alternatives project and how long is it?

  2. Project Management Plan: Are there any windfall benefits that would accrue to the Analysis of Alternatives project sponsor or other parties?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Was planning completed before the Analysis of Alternatives project was initiated?

  4. Schedule Management Plan: Is a process defined to measure the performance of the schedule management process itself?

  5. Human Resource Management Plan: Are risk oriented checklists used during risk identification?

  6. Risk Audit: Are end-users enthusiastically committed to the Analysis of Alternatives project and the system/product to be built?

  7. Variance Analysis: How do you identify and isolate causes of favorable and unfavorable cost and schedule variances?

  8. Initiating Process Group: Realistic - are the desired results expressed in a way that the team will be motivated and believe that the required level of involvement will be obtained?

  9. Stakeholder Management Plan: What procedures will be utilised to ensure effective monitoring of Analysis of Alternatives project progress?

  10. Human Resource Management Plan: List the assumptions made to date. What did you have to assume to be true to complete the charter?

 
Step-by-step and complete Analysis of Alternatives Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Analysis of Alternatives project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Analysis of Alternatives 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 Analysis of Alternatives 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 Analysis of Alternatives investments work better.

This Analysis of Alternatives 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.