CI CD Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the CI CD 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 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which CI CD improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:

  1. What are the main causes related to the challenges for practicing Continuous Integration in a distributed environment for the development of automotive software based on the AUTOSAR Standard?

  2. What changes could you make to your Jenkins environment to alleviate the amount of time it takes to complete and test a build so that the hourly schedule is more likely to be kept?

  3. What are the challenges of practicing Continuous Integration in a distributed environment for the development of automotive software based on the AUTOSAR Standard?

  4. Which pattern recognition model has the best prediction competence for test case selection and prioritization in regression testing for continuous integration?

  5. Does your organization employ a DevOps methodology to automate the continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring of code and application infrastructure?

  6. What technology solutions should you focus on in terms of continuous delivery, automated testing, or in relation to a software defined data centre?

  7. How does a project reconcile the creative needs of its individual programmers with managements needs for stability and predictability?

  8. How do you measure the cybersecurity benefits associated with using continuous integration and continuous deployment methodologies?

  9. Did it use security analytics to help identify any security threats by analyzing alerts and comparing with release security data?

  10. How can MLOps practices support large scale embedded systems companies in achieving continuous delivery and evolve models?


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 CI CD book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Assumption and Constraint Log: Is there documentation of system capability requirements, data requirements, environment requirements, security requirements, and computer and hardware requirements?

  2. Probability and Impact Matrix: What kind of preparation would be required to do this?

  3. Quality Management Plan: Are best practices and metrics employed to identify issues, progress, performance, etc.?

  4. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Do the partners have sufficient financial capacity to keep up the benefits produced by the programme?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: Do you want to have them collaborate at subfactor level?

  6. Activity Attributes: Were there other ways you could have organized the data to achieve similar results?

  7. Lessons Learned: How accurately and timely was the Risk Management Log updated or reviewed?

  8. Project Scope Statement: Identify how your team and you will create the CI CD project scope statement and the work breakdown structure (WBS). Document how you will create the CI CD project scope statement and WBS, and make sure you answer the following questions: In defining CI CD project scope and the WBS, will you and your CI CD project team be using methods defined by your organization, methods defined by the CI CD project management office (PMO), or other methods?

  9. Activity Cost Estimates: What do you want to know about the stay to know if costs were inappropriately high or low?

  10. Risk Audit: Do requirements demand the use of new analysis, design, or testing methods?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 CI CD project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose CI CD 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 CI CD 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 CI CD investments work better.

This CI CD 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.