Microsoft Schedule Plus Toolkit

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  • Confirm your enterprise updates information tracking systems with schedule updates, project progress reports, and commitments to ensure accurate and complete information.

  • Confirm your organization ensures project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule and cost.

  • Lead and/or lead detailed technical WBS definition, Cost Estimation, risk estimation, and technical schedule creation.

  • Ensure data/media recoverability by developing and implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.

  • Utilize key subcontractors and ensure that scope is properly addressed and that project schedule and coordination requirements are fully understood.

  • Use work breakdown schedule (wbs) based, resource and cost loaded critical path methodology (cpm) schedule to organize, communicate and synchronize all tasks ordered.

  • Make sure that your strategy prepares an attainable master schedule to meet shipping dates according to Sales Forecasts or customer orders, and to sustain the balanced, targeted finished goods level.

  • Ensure your business creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics.

  • Maintain schedule and project manage yearly application and network Penetration Tests with Third Party Vendor.

  • Manage technical, implementation and training resources to provide consistent and high quality services while ensuring project completion on schedule and on budget.

  • Manage project/product schedules/timelines, deliverable deadlines, sprints, set goals, schedule meetings, manage design work, etc.

  • Confirm your design ensures processes are in place to provide accurate forecasting analysis, crafts staffing schedules, and monitors real time for schedule adherence.

  • Maintain, revise, and communicate schedule changes and project status.

  • Confirm your organization ensures delivery of programs, products or services and technology to the customer that are compliant with all program requirements for technical, cost, schedule and quality performance.

  • Confirm your organization learns to update information tracking systems with schedule updates, project progress reports, and commitments to ensure accurate and complete information.

  • Collaborate with IT Project Management to complete an aggressive schedule of improvement projects.

  • Confirm your business provides oversight throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment.

  • Make sure that your group prepares training products Status Reports for cost and schedule performance, technical execution status, and Risk Management.

  • Coordinate/communicate with peers work with other Project Managers to avoid or eliminate conflicts in schedule due to the changes in various projects.

  • Ensure your organization secures enterprise information by developing and supporting security technologies, services, and capabilities across the network plus design and develop migration strategies.

  • Be accountable for working closely with market researchers and Software Developers, you face a wide array of challenges relevant to finance and technology.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Microsoft Schedule Plus Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Microsoft Schedule Plus 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 Microsoft Schedule Plus specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Microsoft Schedule Plus 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 Microsoft Schedule Plus improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Who will be responsible for documenting the Microsoft Schedule Plus requirements in detail?

  2. Are you able to realize any cost savings?

  3. Are you maintaining a past-present-future perspective throughout the Microsoft Schedule Plus discussion?

  4. When a disaster occurs, who gets priority?

  5. Are missed Microsoft Schedule Plus opportunities costing your organization money?

  6. Which issues are too important to ignore?

  7. Who owns what data?

  8. How do you know if you are successful?

  9. How important is Microsoft Schedule Plus to the user organizations mission?

  10. Is Microsoft Schedule Plus dependent on the successful delivery of a current project?


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 Microsoft Schedule Plus book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Microsoft Schedule Plus Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Microsoft Schedule Plus project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Microsoft Schedule Plus project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Microsoft Schedule Plus Project Team have enough people to execute the Microsoft Schedule Plus project plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Microsoft Schedule Plus project plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Microsoft Schedule Plus Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Microsoft Schedule Plus project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Microsoft Schedule Plus Project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Microsoft Schedule Plus 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 Microsoft Schedule Plus 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 Microsoft Schedule Plus 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 Microsoft Schedule Plus 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 Microsoft Schedule Plus project with this in-depth Microsoft Schedule Plus Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Microsoft Schedule Plus 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 Microsoft Schedule Plus 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 Microsoft Schedule Plus investments work better.

This Microsoft Schedule Plus 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.