Cloud Operations Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. Does your organization have a set of procedures ready for moving all of its cloud operations and data to another cloud provider?
   
   

2. Does your organization have a set of procedures ready for moving all of its cloud operations and data out of the cloud?
   
   

3. What is a cloud operating model and how is different from any other operating model that IT has delivered in the past?
   
   

4. Can your security systems protect your proprietary technology from all types of threats external as well as internal?
   
   

5. How often do you assess the relevance of your products against the latest market trends and customer expectations?
   
   

6. What do security teams need to understand about software development to meet the demand of high velocity delivery?
   
   

7. Do you have a streamlined process to communicate cloud service consumption charge to individual business units?
   
   

8. Why should your organization maintain a large data center, along with resources and the staff to operate it?
   
   

9. Are you facing recurrent issues triggered by system failures, data inconsistencies, or organizational silos?
   
   

10. Does your organization take advantage of any cloud purchase options to minimize cloud infrastructure costs?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Risk Management Plan: Methodology: how will risk management be performed on this Cloud Operations project?
   
   

2. Quality Metrics: Do the operators focus on determining; is there anything you need to worry about?
   
   

3. Quality Management Plan: What are the established criteria that sampling / testing data are compared against?
   
   

4. Requirements Traceability Matrix: Is there a requirements traceability process in place?
   
   

5. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree is there a sense that only the team can succeed?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Was invitation to tender to each specific contract issued after the evaluation of the indicative tenders was completed?
   
   

7. Planning Process Group: Will the products created live up to the necessary quality?
   
   

8. Lessons Learned: Was the change control process properly implemented to manage changes to cost, scope, schedule, or quality?
   
   

9. Project Schedule: Are key risk mitigation strategies added to the Cloud Operations project schedule?
   
   

10. Lessons Learned: Was there a Cloud Operations project Definition document. Was there a Cloud Operations project Plan. Were they used during the Cloud Operations project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cloud Operations project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cloud Operations 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 Operations 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 Operations investments work better.

This Cloud Operations 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.