Becoming Agile Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Becoming Agile 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Becoming Agile improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Does the program have the skills and resources in place to manage agile teams alongside other projects and business changes and to integrate agile deliveries with legacy systems if necessary?
   
   

2. How do you create an agile business environment so that your workforce is able to work flexibly from any location, on any device and still feel part of the fabric of your organization?
   
   

3. How will you align your resources with a strategy that optimizes the use of your people, processes, information, and technology to keep your organization agile, resilient, and lean?
   
   

4. How can brands and companies without deep pockets or massive marketing budgets still make a significant impact in the markets and to the people that matter most for the business?
   
   

5. What are the most effective approaches to managing the business of IT, including the role of architecture, strategic planning, agile project management and platform adoption?
   
   

6. Are you leveraging any special mechanisms made available by the procurement process, as agile procurement, challenge based procurement, and/or dynamic purchasing systems?
   
   

7. How can agile software delivery and the associated organizational transformation it brings best be aligned with traditional lean and sigma continuous improvement efforts?
   
   

8. How can different stakeholders establish and manage metrics and strategic goals to improve the current large scale agile software development measurement program?
   
   

9. Have you identified innovations across Is your brand sharp and strong enough to the value chain, including new ways of compete in the new agile playing field?
   
   

10. Does the plan enable agile incorporation of new features and functions, providing rolling upgrades that are implemented while everything continues to run?
    
    


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 Becoming Agile book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Planning Process Group: Explanation: is what the Becoming Agile project intents to solve a hard question?
   
   

2. Issue Log: What help do you and your team need from the stakeholders?
   
   

3. Cost Management Plan: Scope of work – What is the scope of work for each of the planned contracts?
   
   

4. Assumption and Constraint Log: Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure Becoming Agile project success?
   
   

5. Procurement Management Plan: Do all stakeholders know how to access the PM repository and where to find the Becoming Agile project documentation?
   
   

6. Quality Management Plan: Is the amount of effort justified by the anticipated value of forming a new process?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: Is trend analysis performed on expenditures made by key employees and by vendor?
   
   

8. Project Schedule: If you can not fix it, how do you do it differently?
   
   

9. Scope Management Plan: Has adequate time for orientation & training of Becoming Agile project staff been provided for in relation to technical nature of the application and the experience levels of Becoming Agile project personnel?
   
   

10. Change Request: What are the basic mechanics of the Change Advisory Board (CAB)?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Becoming Agile project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Becoming Agile project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Becoming Agile 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 Becoming Agile 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 Becoming Agile 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 Becoming Agile 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 Becoming Agile project with this in-depth Becoming Agile Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Becoming Agile 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 Becoming Agile 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 Becoming Agile investments work better.

This Becoming Agile 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.