Managed Private Cloud Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Managed Private Cloud 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 Managed Private Cloud improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Are you executing on digital transformation, and which application services does your organization currently deploy in either an on premises data center/private cloud or the public cloud?
   
   

2. How does the cloud provider, even internally for private clouds, ensure that nothing spills from one virtual environment into the other on the physical intersection point, the server?
   
   

3. Have you considered using the public and private clouds to deliver innovative services to customers, predict problems, and prevent business disruptions more reliably and quickly?
   
   

4. Does your organization provide a network map reflecting the type and quantity of private and leased network connectivity services, service types and bandwidth between locations?
   
   

5. Have you considered using public and private clouds to more reliably and quickly deliver innovative services to customers, predict problems, and prevent business disruptions?
   
   

6. Have you considered using public and private clouds to deliver innovative services to customers, predict problems, and prevent business disruptions more reliably and quickly?
   
   

7. What are the most important criteria used by your organization to make decisions about whether to migrate an application to public and/or private cloud infrastructure?
   
   

8. Where will the software live in your environment and where will people access it in a public cloud, private cloud, on premises, or a combination of several locations?
   
   

9. How important is it to your organization that you can build and run your AI projects wherever your data resides – on any public cloud, private cloud or on premises?
   
   

10. What types of changes need to be made to IT governance and workflow strategies to fully exploit and effectively manage virtualized data centers and private clouds?
    
    


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 Managed Private Cloud book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


• 62 step-by-step Managed Private Cloud Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Managed Private Cloud project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. WBS Dictionary: Contemplated overhead expenditure for each period based on the best information currently available?
   
   

2. Network Diagram: Will crashing x weeks return more in benefits than it costs?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Were stakeholders aware and supportive of the principles and practices of modern cost estimation?
   
   

4. Cost Management Plan: Have Managed Private Cloud project management standards and procedures been identified / established and documented?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Is a pmo (Managed Private Cloud project management office) in place and provide oversight to the Managed Private Cloud project?
   
   

6. Risk Audit: What programmatic and Fiscal information is being collected and analyzed?
   
   

7. Source Selection Criteria: Does your documentation identify why the team concurs or differs with reported performance from past performance report (CPARs, questionnaire responses, etc.)?
   
   

8. Source Selection Criteria: When is it appropriate to issue a Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP)?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Is the foreseen budget compared with similar Managed Private Cloud projects or procurements yet realised (historical standards)?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: Does a process exist for approving or rejecting changes?


 
Step-by-step and complete Managed Private Cloud Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Managed Private Cloud project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Managed Private Cloud project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Managed Private Cloud 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 Managed Private Cloud 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 Managed Private Cloud 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 Managed Private Cloud 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 Managed Private Cloud project with this in-depth Managed Private Cloud Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Managed Private Cloud 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 Managed Private Cloud 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 Managed Private Cloud investments work better.

This Managed Private Cloud 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.