Design Specifications Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Design Specifications 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 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Design Specifications improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Are clear lines of responsibility laid down for product development, and is it clear who is ultimately responsible for different types of product development?
   
   

2. Does the product change represent a substitution for an existing product or model, or an addition to your organizations total product/model range?
   
   

3. Did you assess readiness of potential new technology / modified technology for use in the products systems, assembles, modules and components?
   
   

4. Is your organization encouraging to explore/develop new sensing systems or prefer to use traditional sensors for the scope of work?
   
   

5. What was the level of involvement of the internal functions, customers and suppliers during the different stages of the project?
   
   

6. Is a specification produced for every product development project and was a specification produced for the specific project?
   
   

7. Are there any aspects of the product development process which cause difficulties, or which you consider unsatisfactory?
   
   

8. What is the purpose of using consensus based codes, specifications and standards and to which facilities does it apply?
   
   

9. What will be the timeframe and anticipated funding for the separate contract involving the data management plan?
   
   

10. What methods can be used to identify the needs of beneficiaries and relevant programmatic design specifications?
    
    


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 Design Specifications book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Change Request: Has a formal technical review been conducted to assess technical correctness?
   
   

2. Human Resource Management Plan: Has a quality assurance plan been developed for the Design Specifications project?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Are the people assigned to the Design Specifications project sufficiently qualified?
   
   

4. Human Resource Management Plan: Are key risk mitigation strategies added to the Design Specifications project schedule?
   
   

5. Change Log: Does the suggested change request represent a desired enhancement to the products functionality?
   
   

6. Decision Log: Adversarial environment. is your opponent open to a non-traditional workflow, or will it likely challenge anything you do?
   
   

7. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree are staff involved as partners in the improvement process?
   
   

8. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that the support for its staff is appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Have guidelines been set up for how the procurement process should be conducted?
   
   

10. Project or Phase Close-Out: Did the delivered product meet the specified requirements and goals of the Design Specifications project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Design Specifications project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Design Specifications project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Design Specifications 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 Design Specifications 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 Design Specifications 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 Design Specifications 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 Design Specifications project with this in-depth Design Specifications Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Design Specifications 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 Design Specifications 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 Design Specifications investments work better.

This Design Specifications 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.