APQP Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the APQP 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 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which APQP improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. Does it have a deep bench of sophisticated, experienced staff that will ensure capable management at the project level as well as at the top of your organization?
   
   

2. What is the impact of certain demographic variables on the prevalence of organizational change practices and strategic changes and changes to the work force?
   
   

3. How does your organization handle fractional share investing in the context of its best execution obligations?
   
   

4. Are there any issues affecting the performance of your unit that you would like to bring to your attention?
   
   

5. How does your organization determine the appropriate method and frequency of its execution quality reviews?
   
   

6. What role do ownership, cost, and technology play in the contingency workforce management maturity model?
   
   

7. Is the use of publicly shared data monitored to ensure it is used ethically and its integrity maintained?
   
   

8. Did you notice any facts that appeared inconsistent with the problems being specific to the refrigerator?
   
   

9. Should everyone have a right to remain anonymous when using information and communication technologies?
   
   

10. Is cybersecurity training mandatory across your organization and is it differentiated by area or role?
    
    


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 APQP book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. WBS Dictionary: The already stated responsible for overhead performance control of related costs?
   
   

2. Team Operating Agreement: Do you send out the agenda and meeting materials in advance?
   
   

3. Risk Audit: Does your organization communicate regularly and effectively with its members?
   
   

4. Quality Audit: What is the collective experience of the team to be assigned to an audit?
   
   

5. Human Resource Management Plan: Are written status reports provided on a designated frequent basis?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Is there a formal process for updating the APQP project baseline?
   
   

7. Procurement Management Plan: Do APQP project teams & team members report on status / activities / progress?
   
   

8. Schedule Management Plan: After initial schedule development, will the schedule be reviewed and validated by the APQP project team?
   
   

9. Project Schedule: Is the structure for tracking the APQP project schedule well defined and assigned to a specific individual?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Are incentives to deliver on time and in quantity properly specified?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 APQP project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 APQP project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose APQP 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 APQP 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 APQP investments work better.

This APQP 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.