Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Application Discovery Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Application Discovery 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 Discovery specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Application Discovery 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 Application Discovery improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:
- Are processes, procedures, and technical and/or contractual measures defined, implemented, and evaluated to maintain proper security of third party endpoints with access to organizational assets?
- Does your organization maintain an updated, digital & centralized inventory of suppliers of physical goods, business critical services and/or third party information technology?
- Are the policies and procedures for defining allowances and conditions for the acceptable use of organizationally owned or managed assets reviewed and updated at least annually?
- Does your organization maintain a concise, complete technology inventory that includes software licensing, hardware, and where the items are located or can be accessed?
- Does your organization maintain a concise, complete technology inventory, including software licensing and hardware, and where the items are located or can be accessed?
- Are processes, procedures, and technical measures defined, implemented, and evaluated for vulnerability detection on organizationally managed assets at least monthly?
- Will the processing use profiling, automated decision making or special category data to help make decisions on someones access to a service, opportunity or benefit?
- Are you expecting the performance of a penetration test or an assessment of the web application, including the scanning for additional vulnerabilities?
- Can the system generate a parts catalog by type of part or by current vendor with yearly usage to facilitate blanket contract negotiation?
- Is a user access provisioning process defined and implemented which authorizes, records, and communicates data and assets access changes?
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 Discovery book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Application Discovery 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 Discovery Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Application Discovery 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 Discovery 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 Discovery projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Application Discovery Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Application Discovery project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Lessons Learned: Was the purpose of the Application Discovery project, the end products and success criteria clearly defined and agreed at the start?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there procedures in place to effectively manage interdependencies with other Application Discovery projects / systems?
- Change Management Plan: What are the key change management success metrics?
- Executing Process Group: Do the products created live up to the necessary quality?
- Risk Register: Schedule impact/severity estimated range (workdays) assume the event happens, what is the potential impact?
- Scope Management Plan: Has the selected plan been formulated using cost effectiveness and incremental analysis techniques?
- Schedule Management Plan: Does the ims include all contract and/or designated management control milestones?
- Risk Register: What are you going to do to limit the Application Discovery projects risk exposure due to the identified risks?
- Source Selection Criteria: What is the last item a Application Discovery project manager must do to finalize Application Discovery project close-out?
- Procurement Audit: Does the strategy discus the best manner of purchase, considering the types of goods and services needed?
Step-by-step and complete Application Discovery Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Application Discovery project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Application Discovery 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 Discovery 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 Discovery 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 Discovery 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 Discovery 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 Discovery project with this in-depth Application Discovery Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Application Discovery 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 Discovery 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 Discovery investments work better.
This Application Discovery 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.
