Cloud Managed Service Providers Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Cloud Managed Service Providers 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 Managed Service Providers improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:

  1. Will you be positioned to take advantage of new growth opportunities even though the environment of uncertainty is likely to remain?

  2. Can the service provider help you transition seamlessly from the data center to a cloud service or supplementary managed service?

  3. What would happen in your organization when programs purchase own cloud computing technology to satisfy mission needs?

  4. What does your organization do when and if it needs to move from one cloud service provider to a different one?

  5. When and how do your business, application, project, and operations teams request and provision cloud services?

  6. What level of control do you want, and who is responsible for what after the transition to managed services?

  7. Can a cloud services provider deliver you the enforceable service level guarantees your stakeholders demand?

  8. Is outsourcing cost effective when accounting for security requirements and organizational risk thresholds?

  9. Does the vendor offer a portal environment or mobile app to allow individual transactions to be monitored?

  10. Which factors of service must be managed effectively by a SaaS provider in a cloud computing environment?


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 Managed Service Providers book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Risk Management Plan: Do the requirements require the creation of components that are unlike anything your organization has previously built?

  2. Change Management Plan: What is the worst thing that can happen if you chose not to communicate this information?

  3. Closing Process Group: How well did the chosen processes produce the expected results?

  4. Source Selection Criteria: Is a letter of commitment from each proposed team member and key subcontractor included?

  5. Cost Management Plan: Is current scope of the Cloud Managed Service Providers project substantially different than that originally defined?

  6. WBS Dictionary: Is undistributed budget limited to contract effort which cannot yet be planned to CWBS elements at or below the level specified for reporting to the Government?

  7. Cost Management Plan: Is the assigned Cloud Managed Service Providers project manager a PMP (Certified Cloud Managed Service Providers project manager) and experienced?

  8. Human Resource Management Plan: Have all documents been archived in a Cloud Managed Service Providers project repository for each release?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was the expert likely to gain privileged knowledge from his activity which could be advantageous for him in a subsequent competition?

  10. Probability and Impact Matrix: Are staff committed for the duration of the Cloud Managed Service Providers project?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Cloud Managed Service Providers project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Cloud Managed Service Providers 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 Managed Service Providers 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 Managed Service Providers 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 Managed Service Providers 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 Managed Service Providers 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 Managed Service Providers project with this in-depth Cloud Managed Service Providers Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Cloud Managed Service Providers 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 Managed Service Providers 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 Managed Service Providers investments work better.

This Cloud Managed Service Providers 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.