IT Due Diligence Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT Due Diligence 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 998 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IT Due Diligence improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:


1. Has your organization documented policies and procedures consistent with applicable ABC regulations and requirements to reasonably prevent, detect and report bribery and corruption?
   
   

2. Does your organization have policies, procedures and processes to review and escalate matters arising from the monitoring of customer transactions and activity?
   
   

3. Does the compensation expected by the third party vary significantly from what is dictated by local market prices or internal benchmarks for similar services?
   
   

4. Are the erp and ancillary software components appropriate and well matched to the business operations and providing the desired and necessary functionality?
   
   

5. Has your organization determined and documented a likelihood rating for each threat to exploit the vulnerability, given the security measures in place?
   
   

6. Has your organization appointed a designated officer or officers with sufficient experience/expertise responsible for coordinating the ABC programme?
   
   

7. How often are test restores completed and how often are backup selections verified to ensure that all relevant organizational data is being captured?
   
   

8. Does your organization have risk based policies, procedures and monitoring processes for the identification and reporting of suspicious activity?
   
   

9. Does your organization have controls to support the inclusion of required and accurate originator information in international payment messages?
   
   

10. Has your organization determined what level of due diligence evaluation is required for each category of risk and developed related protocols?
    
    


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 IT Due Diligence book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


• 62 step-by-step IT Due Diligence Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 IT Due Diligence project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Closing Process Group: Will the IT Due Diligence project deliverable(s) replace a current asset or group of assets?
   
   

2. Team Member Performance Assessment: Where can team members go for more detailed information on performance measurement and assessment?
   
   

3. WBS Dictionary: Does the contractor have procedures which permit identification of recurring or non-recurring costs as necessary?
   
   

4. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: All cwbs elements specified for external reporting?
   
   

5. Activity Duration Estimates: Briefly summarize the work done by Maslow, Herzberg, McClellan, McGregor, Ouchi, Thamhain and Wilemon, and Covey. How do theories relate to IT Due Diligence project management?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Will outside resources be needed to help in its development?
   
   

7. Issue Log: In your work, how much time is spent on stakeholder identification?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Management Plan: Have process improvement efforts been completed before requirements efforts begin?
   
   

9. Lessons Learned: How effective were Best Practices & Lessons Learned from prior IT Due Diligence projects utilized in this IT Due Diligence project?
   
   

10. Project Scope Statement: Relevant - ask yourself can you get there; why are you doing this IT Due Diligence project?


 
Step-by-step and complete IT Due Diligence Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Due Diligence project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IT Due Diligence project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 IT Due Diligence 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 IT Due Diligence 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 IT Due Diligence 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 IT Due Diligence 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 IT Due Diligence project with this in-depth IT Due Diligence Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT Due Diligence 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 IT Due Diligence 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 IT Due Diligence investments work better.

This IT Due Diligence 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.