Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Data Center Design and Construction Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:
- Should rounding of the metric values be attempted in the first stage or should all changes be made after the promulgation dates of preferred dimension standards?
- Will you need to expand your data center beyond its current walls, renovate its infrastructure, or build a completely new facility on a new site?
- What measures has Digital Realty put in place to ensure continuation of construction work during the lockdown & restrictions of movement?
- Which specific policies and actions deliver the best outcomes and is there a link between actions on pay equity and outcomes?
- Who is doing the relocation / migration of the live servers and IT hardware to the new layout in the dark data center?
- Are there any specifications on any equipment that is preferred or is it at the vendors discretion for the design?
- How do you connect your IT infrastructure to users, business partners and cloud or Managed Service Providers?
- Has legislation hindered Air Force management in developing effective and efficient ways to manage surge?
- What cost elements are associated with different levels of data center reliability and fault tolerance?
- How can the Air Force usefully incorporate your findings in its policies as it moves into the future?
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 Data Center Design and Construction book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Data Center Design and Construction Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Data Center Design and Construction project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Project Portfolio management: Regularly review and revise the Data Center Design and Construction project portfolio (eg several times a year) are done?
- Cost Management Plan: Have the procedures for identifying budget variances been followed?
- Communications Management Plan: Do you then often overlook a key stakeholder or stakeholder group?
- Project Portfolio management: Are you working differently with your portfolios at different parts of your organization?
- Cost Management Plan: Was the Data Center Design and Construction project schedule reviewed by all stakeholders and formally accepted?
- Procurement Management Plan: Is there general agreement & acceptance of the current status and progress of the Data Center Design and Construction project?
- Communications Management Plan: Who have you worked with in past, similar initiatives?
- Project Performance Report: To what degree will team members, individually and collectively, commit time to help themselves and others learn and develop skills?
- Initiating Process Group: Do you understand the quality and control criteria that must be achieved for successful Data Center Design and Construction project completion?
- Risk Audit: What impact does experience with one client have on decisions made for other clients during the risk-assessment process?
Step-by-step and complete Data Center Design and Construction Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Data Center Design and Construction project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Data Center Design and Construction project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction project with this in-depth Data Center Design and Construction Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction 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 Data Center Design and Construction investments work better.
This Data Center Design and Construction 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.
