Cost Plus Contract Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cost Plus Contract 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 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cost Plus Contract improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. What evidence does the audit committee and management receive that show is an internal audit service provider is doing a good job, providing a cost effective service, and delivering valued outcomes?
   
   

2. Are processes, procedures, and technical and/or contractual measures defined, implemented, and evaluated to maintain proper security of third party endpoints with access to organizational assets?
   
   

3. How may changes to the supply chain or changes in sales forecasts impact the ability for purchases and sales contracts to qualify for the normal purchases and normal sales scope exception?
   
   

4. What is the role of intellectual property rights, terms of service, contractual obligations, or other legal entitlements in fostering or impeding a robust AI accountability ecosystem?
   
   

5. How are subsequent phases handles deliverables, data analysis, business requirements, and the cost reduction breakdown and risk mitigation managed, communicated, and supported?
   
   

6. Is the data classified according to its sensitivity and free from privacy/ethical, contractual, license or copyright terms and conditions that restrict public access and reuse?
   
   

7. How do you best assure that the costs of the internal control over financial reporting requirements imposed on smaller public companies are commensurate with the benefits?
   
   

8. Are variance analysis thresholds or requirements established for reporting technical, schedule or cost variances to planned goals established for your control accounts?
   
   

9. Does the authority have and use the requisite financial information to allow cost benchmarking, investment level comparisons and appropriate financial reporting?
   
   

10. How do you ensure the team appointed to undertake the work is justifiable in terms of the analysis of the contract against your organizations skills base?
    
    


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 Cost Plus Contract book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: How difficult will it be to do specific activities on this Cost Plus Contract project?
   
   

2. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree do team members understand one anothers roles and skills?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: What is the estimated time to complete the Cost Plus Contract project if status quo is maintained?
   
   

4. Change Request: Should staff call into the helpdesk or go to the website?
   
   

5. Probability and Impact Assessment: Are staff committed for the duration of the Cost Plus Contract project?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Are there performance targets on value for money obtained and cost savings?
   
   

7. Resource Breakdown Structure: What is the purpose of assigning and documenting responsibility?
   
   

8. Procurement Management Plan: Have stakeholder accountabilities & responsibilities been clearly defined?
   
   

9. Schedule Management Plan: Is it standard practice to formally commit stakeholders to the Cost Plus Contract project via agreements?
   
   

10. Risk Audit: Where will the next scandal or adverse media involving your organization come from?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cost Plus Contract project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cost Plus Contract project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Cost Plus Contract 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 Cost Plus Contract 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 Cost Plus Contract 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 Cost Plus Contract 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 Cost Plus Contract project with this in-depth Cost Plus Contract Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cost Plus Contract 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 Cost Plus Contract 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 Cost Plus Contract investments work better.

This Cost Plus Contract 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.