Configuration Item Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. Does the tool facilitate integration with Availability monitoring tools, in order to correlate and compare capacity and availability data collected against the same Configuration Items?
   
   

2. What technologies are available to reduce the labor intensive process of keeping up with the latest patches, system vulnerabilities, configuration management and compliance monitoring?
   
   

3. Are there any special organization configuration items that come to mind that you need to be aware about that can affect a migration or utilizing Office 365?
   
   

4. Can data replicated to the cloud/off site be restored to either your organizations on premises servers and/or the Vendors disaster recovery configuration?
   
   

5. Are all configuration items defined, uniquely identifiable and recorded in a controlled configuration management database that is periodically audited?
   
   

6. Can user defined aggregated meters be individually configurable, depending on the user, and can the individual configurations be stored?
   
   

7. Are there technical standards for the security configuration of individual network, system, application and other technology components?
   
   

8. Which itil process ensures that the information that has been made available satisfies the specified information security requirements?
   
   

9. Which itil process provides an insight, through the modeling activity, into trends that could cause performance problems in the future?
   
   

10. Does the tool facilitate the identification of weak or unstable Configuration Items through support for component failure analysis?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Human Resource Management Plan: Do Configuration Item project teams & team members report on status / activities / progress?
   
   

2. Human Resource Management Plan: Are non-critical path items updated and agreed upon with the teams?
   
   

3. Variance Analysis: What does an unfavorable overhead volume variance mean?
   
   

4. Risk Audit: Are you meeting your legal, regulatory and compliance requirements - if not, why not?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Are unusual uses of organization funds investigated?
   
   

6. WBS Dictionary: Are overhead budgets and costs being handled according to the disclosure statement when applicable, or otherwise properly classified (for example, engineering overhead, IR&D)?
   
   

7. Roles and Responsibilities: Influence: what areas of organizational decision making are you able to influence when you do not have authority to make the final decision?
   
   

8. Procurement Management Plan: Are post milestone Configuration Item project reviews (PMPR) conducted with your organization at least once a year?
   
   

9. Earned Value Status: If earned value management (EVM) is so good in determining the true status of a Configuration Item project and Configuration Item project its completion, why is it that hardly any one uses it in information systems related Configuration Item projects?
   
   

10. Project Performance Report: To what degree do all members feel responsible for all agreed-upon measures?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Configuration Item project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Configuration Item project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item project with this in-depth Configuration Item Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item investments work better.

This Configuration Item 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.