Cloud Modernization Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Cloud Modernization 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 991 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 Modernization improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:

  1. How have you begun modernizing, and what are your short term and long term goals, especially with something like maybe cloud services or incorporating emerging technologies into the workplace?

  2. What happens when critical data from important lines of business is locked up in a legacy system, technically incompatible with modern data management solutions?

  3. Do you connect to legacy systems and easily integrate with office productivity suites, enterprise applications and databases, cloud services, and DevOps tools?

  4. Do digital channels provide the elevated experience, data accuracy and the responsiveness that users have come to expect of modern commerce channels?

  5. Do you believe technology professionals entering the workforce today have the necessary skills to manage modern, distributed IT environments?

  6. What is the impact that the one year budgeting and appropriations cycle has on industry and its ability to support IT modernization efforts?

  7. How do you move forward with modernizing your organizations data enterprise and use of cloud to enable requirements based AI applications?

  8. Has your organization assessed which tools could be removed from your cloud security effort with a more modern cloud security approach?

  9. How would your current communications system stack up against a modern system that was less dependent on the telephone organization?

  10. Does your cloud native application environment support the optimization of existing apps as well as the development of modern apps?


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 Modernization book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Probability and Impact Assessment: How carefully have the potential competitors been identified?

  2. Human Resource Management Plan: Is it standard practice to formally commit stakeholders to the Cloud Modernization project via agreements?

  3. Lessons Learned: How many government and contractor personnel are authorized for the Cloud Modernization project?

  4. Variance Analysis: Is budgeted cost for work performed calculated in a manner consistent with the way work is planned?

  5. Project Portfolio management: Why is Cloud Modernization project portfolio management (PPM) important?

  6. Procurement Audit: Was the award criterion only the most economical advantageous tender?

  7. Risk Audit: What programmatic and Fiscal information is being collected and analyzed?

  8. Lessons Learned: What regulatory regime controlled how your organization head and program manager directed your organization and Cloud Modernization project?

  9. Initiating Process Group: The process to Manage Stakeholders is part of which process group?

  10. Project Performance Report: To what degree are the demands of the task compatible with and converge with the relationships of the informal organization?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Cloud Modernization project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Cloud Modernization 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 Modernization 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 Modernization 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 Modernization 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 Modernization 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 Modernization project with this in-depth Cloud Modernization Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Cloud Modernization 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 Modernization 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 Modernization investments work better.

This Cloud Modernization 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.