Data Fabric Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Data Fabric 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 996 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 Fabric improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:


1. How do you create a communication fabric capable of preserving the rich features of each data flow while allowing data interchange and connectivity across machine networks whenever required?
   
   

2. How to you integrate IoT/IIoT, pervasive sensing, and the cloud into your companies existing data fabric security and with context and exploit advanced analytics?
   
   

3. What are the key technology or business challenges your organization has faced or expects to face in implementing BI/performance management tools/solutions?
   
   

4. What is the ideal data integration solution to generate and deliver holistic and accurate information at the right time, with reduced cost and complexity?
   
   

5. What use cases are becoming more prevalent as enterprises modernize the datacenter networks in pursuit of digital resiliency and digital transformation?
   
   

6. Which packaging and procurement strategy will represent your most likely approach in rolling out a comprehensive fabric strategy in your data centers?
   
   

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

8. Are you using valid methods and appropriate tools to transform or provide information that is meaningful to decision makers or the public at large?
   
   

9. What incentives and transition approaches are most conducive to integrating multiple systems that often are at different levels of sophistication?
   
   

10. How do you cleanse your data and remediate data quality issues, as accuracy, completeness, conformity, integrity, consistency, and duplication?
    
    


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 Fabric book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. WBS Dictionary: Are data elements reconcilable between internal summary reports and reports forwarded to us?
   
   

2. Procurement Management Plan: Do Data Fabric project managers participating in the Data Fabric project know the Data Fabric projects true status first hand?
   
   

3. Lessons Learned: How effectively were issues managed on the Data Fabric project?
   
   

4. Human Resource Management Plan: Does the detailed work plan match the complexity of tasks with the capabilities of personnel?
   
   

5. Issue Log: Are you constantly rushing from meeting to meeting?
   
   

6. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What factors are contributing to progress or delay in the achievement of products and results?
   
   

7. Scope Management Plan: Are software metrics formally captured, analyzed and used as a basis for other Data Fabric project estimates?
   
   

8. Probability and Impact Assessment: Can this technology be absorbed with current level of expertise available in your organization?
   
   

9. Requirements Management Plan: How will you develop the schedule of requirements activities?
   
   

10. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Contemplated overhead expenditure for each period based on the best information currently available?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Data Fabric project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Data Fabric 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 Fabric 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 Fabric 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 Fabric 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 Fabric 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 Fabric project with this in-depth Data Fabric Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Data Fabric 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 Fabric 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 Fabric investments work better.

This Data Fabric 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.