IT Organization Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT Organization 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 999 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 Organization improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. What monitoring and communications mechanisms are in place to ensure that IT professionals stay informed of emerging legislative and regulatory developments that could affect the IT organization?
   
   

2. How can business and IT organizations handle the rising number of technological and architectural decisions as well as deliver new functionalities in time to meet business expectations?
   
   

3. What are the biggest issues with your organizations IT organization when it comes to deploying and operating technology products and services?
   
   

4. What role do members of the OSS movement have as change agents in getting IT organizations to adopt open source software?
   
   

5. How does the IT organization preserve a branded IT identity with a combination of onsite and externally hosted services?
   
   

6. Which describes the most important ways your IT service providers contribute to the success of your IT organization?
   
   

7. Does your organization value evaluation capacity enough to provide meaningful, consistent, and sustained support?
   
   

8. What sort of benchmarking activities are used to compare the IT functions performance to other IT organizations?
   
   

9. Are price adjustments, discounts and terms hiding the real price your organization is getting for its products?
   
   

10. How much of an impact does pricing appear to have on your overall market share and your overall sales change?
    
    


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 Organization book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Risk Audit: Is all expenditure authorised through an identified process?
   
   

2. Risk Management Plan: Are staff committed for the duration of the product?
   
   

3. Stakeholder Management Plan: What proven methodologies and standards will be used to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for purpose?
   
   

4. Lessons Learned: How well were IT Organization project issues communicated throughout your involvement in the IT Organization project?
   
   

5. Stakeholder Management Plan: What specific resources will be required for implementation activities?
   
   

6. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: What is the number one predictor of a groups productivity?
   
   

7. Planning Process Group: To what extent is the program helping to influence your organizations policy framework?
   
   

8. Scope Management Plan: Have the key elements of a coherent IT Organization project management strategy been established?
   
   

9. Risk Register: How could corresponding Risk affect the IT Organization project in terms of cost and schedule?
   
   

10. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its teaching activities (and staff learning) are effectively and constructively enhanced by its activities?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Organization project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IT Organization 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 Organization 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 Organization 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 Organization 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 Organization 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 Organization project with this in-depth IT Organization Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT Organization 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 Organization 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 Organization investments work better.

This IT Organization 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.