Cloud Solutions Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. Are you seeing the emergence of cloud service analytics and management platforms that will transform the sophistication of the cloud market for clients that use multi cloud services?
   
   

2. Does your organization currently have written policies or procedures pertaining specifically to mobile/portable devices or the handling of mobile data?
   
   

3. What happens if you make new decisions using experience, where the context for making the decision in the present is different to that of the past?
   
   

4. How do you effectively detect duplication and inconsistent data when it is distributed across different silos, vendors, and providers?
   
   

5. Who retains ownership of the data that is processed, stored, transmitted, and/or created with the cloud solution?
   
   

6. How can adopting cloud solutions with built in security and resilience improve your user and data protection?
   
   

7. Does management have the skills required to understand the complexities associated with cloud computing?
   
   

8. What does your organization do to increase the performance, privacy and the scalability of the solution?
   
   

9. Has management established adequate minimum service level expectations for third party cloud providers?
   
   

10. How do other organizations expect to do that and keep up with the growth, the cost, and the complexity?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Stakeholder Management Plan: What other teams / processes would be impacted by changes to the current process, and how?
   
   

2. Procurement Management Plan: Have all involved Cloud Solutions project stakeholders and work groups committed to the Cloud Solutions project?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Are trade-offs between accepting the risk and mitigating the risk identified?
   
   

4. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Who is influential in the Cloud Solutions project area (both thematic and geographic areas)?
   
   

5. Team Operating Agreement: Do you record meetings for the already stated unable to attend?
   
   

6. Assumption and Constraint Log: Does a documented Cloud Solutions project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?
   
   

7. Executing Process Group: What will you do to minimize the impact should a risk event occur?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Could any of your organizations weaknesses seriously threaten development?
   
   

9. Stakeholder Management Plan: What preventative action can be taken to reduce the likelihood a risk will be realised?
   
   

10. Initiating Process Group: What will you do to minimize the impact should a risk event occur?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cloud Solutions project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions 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 Solutions investments work better.

This Cloud Solutions 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.