Application Audit Toolkit

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



STEP 1: Get your bearings



Start with...




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



Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:




1. What types of additional end user applications for internal business units and external clients will be required for maximizing the adoption and penetration without additional new enhancements?
   
   

2. Do you know how well your organization is protected against viruses, malware or espionage programs and whether your applications, systems and infrastructures are safe from attacks?
   
   

3. How confident are you in your organizations ability to materially reduce API data security issues as unauthorized access, threat, data privacy and compliance risks?
   
   

4. Do you mandate annual information security reviews and audits of your third party providers to ensure that all agreed upon security requirements are met?
   
   

5. What risks do cloud based applications pose to financial reporting because of a shared ledger as opposed to dual ledger?
   
   

6. Are security leaders aware of the new role the teams will play in modern application development and management?
   
   

7. Does your organization leverage qualified resources from other departments to audit critical IT related areas?
   
   

8. Are independent audit and assurance assessments conducted according to relevant standards at least annually?
   
   

9. Are processes, procedures, and technical measures for security breach notifications defined and implemented?
   
   

10. Does internal audit ensure that your organizations risk governance framework complies with the guidelines?
    
    




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 Application Audit book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...




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




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




Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:




1. Procurement Audit: Has it been determined how large a portion of the procurement portfolio should be managed by the procurement function/unit and how large a portion that should be managed locally?
   
   

2. Stakeholder Management Plan: Have Application Audit project management standards and procedures been identified / established and documented?
   
   

3. Procurement Management Plan: Are vendor contract reports, reviews and visits conducted periodically?
   
   

4. Source Selection Criteria: Is the contracting office likely to receive more purchase requests for this item or service during the coming year?
   
   

5. Quality Management Plan: With the five whys method, the team considers why the issue being explored occurred. do others then take that initial answer and ask why?
   
   

6. Human Resource Management Plan: Are cause and effect determined for risks when others occur?
   
   

7. Assumption and Constraint Log: Does the traceability documentation describe the tool and/or mechanism to be used to capture traceability throughout the life cycle?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Are the interests in line with the program objectives?
   
   

9. Project Scope Statement: What process would you recommend for creating the Application Audit project scope statement?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Is the assigned Application Audit project manager a PMP (Certified Application Audit project manager) and experienced?




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



1.0 Initiating Process Group:




• 1.1 Application Audit project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix




2.0 Planning Process Group:




• 2.1 Application Audit project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Application Audit 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 Application Audit 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 Application Audit 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 Application Audit 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 Application Audit project with this in-depth Application Audit Toolkit.



In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:




• Diagnose Application Audit 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 Application Audit 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 Application Audit investments work better.



This Application Audit 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.