Data Center System Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Data Center System 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 997 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 System improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:

  1. How can the virtual data center be optimized and right sized to meet the stringent performance demands of the most critical application workloads, while maximizing utilization of resources?

  2. What is an effective energy management system that a data center can set up and maintain that would enable an accurate accounting of energy costs according to individual customer loads?

  3. Are external perimeter datacenter surveillance systems and surveillance systems at all ingress and egress points implemented, maintained, and operated?

  4. What are the specific requirements that a network operating system must meet to support digital transformation and datacenter network modernization?

  5. Are you looking to consolidate your enterprise data center applications and workloads from legacy storage as part of your digital transformation?

  6. How do you perform analysis against the network traffic being transmitted or received by your application, systems and/or data center?

  7. Do you use existing data in the EHR to bypass the need for patient by patient screening or to screen only a subset of all patients?

  8. Does your organization have a fully redundant data center, where you could get all your systems up and running in less than a week?

  9. Does your data center staff have the ability to better understand complex schedules from a variety of mainframe scheduling systems?

  10. How do you build a resilient, people centred system which protects individuals data while minimising the burden it places on users?


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 System book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Risk Audit: Are procedures developed to respond to foreseeable emergencies and communicated to all involved?

  2. Network Diagram: If the Data Center System project network diagram cannot change and you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to do?

  3. Cost Management Plan: Cost estimate preparation – What cost estimates will be prepared during the Data Center System project phases?

  4. Change Log: Does the suggested change request seem to represent a necessary enhancement to the product?

  5. Variance Analysis: Does the accounting system provide a basis for auditing records of direct costs chargeable to the contract?

  6. Team Directory: How do unidentified risks impact the outcome of the Data Center System project?

  7. Risk Management Plan: Are the required plans included, such as nonstructural flood risk management plans?

  8. Scope Management Plan: Are corrective actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Data Center System project plan (variances)?

  9. Schedule Management Plan: Are all activities captured and do they address all approved work scope in the Data Center System project baseline?

  10. Quality Audit: Are all staff empowered and encouraged to contribute to ongoing improvement efforts?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Data Center System project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Data Center System 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 System 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 System 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 System 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 System 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 System project with this in-depth Data Center System Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Data Center System 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 System 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 System investments work better.

This Data Center System 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.