CloudFormation Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the CloudFormation 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 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which CloudFormation improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. Which elements of the infrastructure and processes is your enterprise responsible for under the cloud providers shared responsibility model?
   
   

2. Should funding mechanisms be limited to making full use of existing mechanisms or also entail new and additional resources and mechanisms?
   
   

3. Which weather change usually occurs when the difference between the air temperature and the dewpoint temperature is decreasing?
   
   

4. How will customer demand change over time, and will there be any changes due to seasonal increases or marketing campaigns?
   
   

5. How do you turn a monolithic, on premise application into a flexible architecture that takes full advantage of the cloud?
   
   

6. Is there a minimum standard of living that is a prerequisite to adopting response strategies to address climate change?
   
   

7. How does your organization balance the risks of organizational disruption with the rewards of ecosystem innovation?
   
   

8. How do you understand which of your workloads can be moved to cloud, and how much effort will be required?
   
   

9. Can the problem be re created by running a single command, a set of commands, or a particular application?
   
   

10. Will you think differently because of the ways interpretation takes shape across networked contingencies?
    
    


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 CloudFormation book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Change Log: How does this change affect the timeline of the schedule?
   
   

2. Human Resource Management Plan: How will the CloudFormation project manage expectations & meet needs and requirements?
   
   

3. Risk Audit: Has everyone (staff, volunteers and participants) agreed to a code of behaviour or conduct?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Is a payment system in place with proper reviews and approvals?
   
   

5. Team Member Performance Assessment: What qualities does a successful Team leader possess?
   
   

6. Communications Management Plan: In your work, how much time is spent on stakeholder identification?
   
   

7. Risk Management Plan: Risks should be identified during which phase of CloudFormation project management life cycle?
   
   

8. Procurement Management Plan: Does the detailed work plan match the complexity of tasks with the capabilities of personnel?
   
   

9. Planning Process Group: Is the CloudFormation project supported by national and/or local organizations?
   
   

10. Requirements Management Plan: Is stakeholder risk tolerance an important factor for the requirements process in this CloudFormation project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 CloudFormation project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 CloudFormation project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation project with this in-depth CloudFormation Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation investments work better.

This CloudFormation 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.