IT Operations Architecture Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT Operations Architecture 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 Operations Architecture improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:


1. Does your organizations reporting level architecture summarize transaction data and provide the financial, operations, and program information necessary for internal and external reporting?
   
   

2. How would you rate your IT organizations overall progress to date in optimizing IT operations including team staffing models, standardizing processes, and managing application workloads?
   
   

3. Does your cloud strategy reflect consideration of opportunities to transform/modernize aspects of the business and/or aspects of IT operations and even Security & Compliance operations?
   
   

4. How will it operations effectively plan and execute on an IT infrastructure that is responsive to the needs of your organization as it evolves toward the real time enterprise?
   
   

5. Have previous audit results concluded an effective IT general controls environment related to change management, logical access and security and IT operations and processes?
   
   

6. How can it operations successfully evolve from component management to end to end it service management, encompassing business applications and underlying infrastructure?
   
   

7. What it management processes, best practices and strategies will it operations groups use to monitor, report, predict and improve it service availability and performance?
   
   

8. How much offshoring/nearshoring do you currently use to service your business and IT operations, whether with an outsourcing provider or within your own shared services?
   
   

9. What architectures, technologies, strategies and operational process improvements will enable IT operations to reduce costs without sacrificing quality of service?
   
   

10. How do you choose between a myriad of business and technology options to create a robust information architecture that supports ongoing operational requirements?
    
    


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 Operations Architecture book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Scope Management Plan: Are calculations and results of analyzes essentially correct?
   
   

2. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its relationships with industry and employers are appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

3. Change Request: How is the change documented (format, content, storage)?
   
   

4. Project Schedule: Eliminate unnecessary activities. Are there activities that came from a template or previous IT Operations Architecture project that are not applicable on this phase of this IT Operations Architecture project?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Does the business case include how the IT Operations Architecture project aligns with your organizations strategic goals & objectives?
   
   

6. Probability and Impact Assessment: Risk data quality assessment - what is the quality of the data used to determine or assess the risk?
   
   

7. Issue Log: Can you think of other people who might have concerns or interests?
   
   

8. Planning Process Group: How are the principles of aid effectiveness (ownership, alignment, management for development results and mutual responsibility) being applied in the IT Operations Architecture project?
   
   

9. Source Selection Criteria: How should comments received in response to a RFP be handled?
   
   

10. Activity Attributes: Can you re-assign any activities to another resource to resolve an over-allocation?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Operations Architecture project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IT Operations Architecture 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 Operations Architecture 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 Operations Architecture 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 Operations Architecture 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 Operations Architecture 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 Operations Architecture project with this in-depth IT Operations Architecture Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT Operations Architecture 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 Operations Architecture 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 Operations Architecture investments work better.

This IT Operations Architecture 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.