Cloud Governance Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cloud Governance 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 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cloud Governance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:


1. How do you get quick access, a consistent user experience, and compliance and financial control across public cloud providers and classification domains?
   
   

2. How can organizations assess cloud readiness, plan and execute migrations and establish comprehensive cloud governance?
   
   

3. Which capability is related to the discovery, selection, and subscription of external third party services?
   
   

4. Which capability is related to the discovery, selection, and subscription of external thirdparty services?
   
   

5. Does the cloud based service use or offer a reusable and modular API architecture and management platform?
   
   

6. How does your organization plan ahead for eventually leaving a CSP when entering a contract with the CSP?
   
   

7. Who is responsible for the hardware and application costs in an Infrastructure as a Service public cloud?
   
   

8. What is the fundamental characteristic for hardware used in a cloud computing management infrastructure?
   
   

9. Does your organization have an existing governance model with business processes that can be automated?
   
   

10. What are the key challenges your organization faces to deliver your planned Data Governance capability?
    
    


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 Cloud Governance book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: Consider the history of modern quality management. How have experts such as Deming, Juran, Crosby, and Taguchi affected the quality movement and todays use of Six Sigma?
   
   

2. Contractor Status Report: What is the average response time for answering a support call?
   
   

3. Activity Duration Estimates: Which is the BEST Cloud Governance project management tool to use to determine the longest time the Cloud Governance project will take?
   
   

4. Variance Analysis: Are control accounts opened and closed based on the start and completion of work contained therein?
   
   

5. Cost Management Plan: Schedule preparation – how will the schedules be prepared during each phase of the Cloud Governance project?
   
   

6. Executing Process Group: How does a Cloud Governance project life cycle differ from a product life cycle?
   
   

7. Scope Management Plan: Is the Cloud Governance project status reviewed with the steering and executive teams at appropriate intervals?
   
   

8. Contractor Status Report: What was the actual budget or estimated cost for your organizations services?
   
   

9. Project Schedule: Understand the constraints used in preparing the schedule. Are activities connected because logic dictates the order in which others occur?
   
   

10. Probability and Impact Assessment: Have decisions that should be left open because of inadequate information on technology been identified and responsibility assigned for reducing the uncertainty?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cloud Governance project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cloud Governance project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Cloud Governance 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 Cloud Governance 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 Cloud Governance 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 Cloud Governance 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 Cloud Governance project with this in-depth Cloud Governance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cloud Governance 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 Cloud Governance 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 Cloud Governance investments work better.

This Cloud Governance 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.