Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Network Design Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Network Design 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 Network Design specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Network Design 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 Network Design improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:
- How do you design the network to support the integration of diverse healthcare systems, including electronic health records (EHRs), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), and laboratory information systems (LIS)?
- What are the key considerations for ensuring network design addresses the needs of government and public sector organizations, particularly with regards to security and compliance with regulations such as FISMA and FedRAMP?
- How do you ensure that network design takes into account the specific requirements of different departments or teams within a media and entertainment company, such as post-production, animation, and sound design?
- How do you determine the necessary network infrastructure to support the specific needs of different media and entertainment companies, such as film studios, music production studios, and television networks?
- How do you ensure that the network design provides the necessary level of redundancy and failover capabilities to support the high availability requirements of software development and engineering teams?
- What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) that the transportation management system (TMS) and logistics teams require from the network design to ensure seamless integration and efficient operations?
- What are the specific disaster recovery and business continuity requirements for software development and engineering teams, and how do you ensure the network design addresses these requirements?
- How do network designers ensure that the network infrastructure can accommodate the unique demands of emerging technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI)?
- How do you design a network that can support the unique requirements of real-time data analytics and machine learning workloads, including high-speed data transfer and low-latency communication?
- What are the implications of using network congestion control algorithms and traffic management techniques in HPC environments, and how do you optimize network performance in these environments?
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 Network Design book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Network Design 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 Network Design Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Network Design 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 Network Design 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 Network Design projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Network Design Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Network Design project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Project or Phase Close-Out: Did the delivered product meet the specified requirements and goals of the Network Design project?
- Procurement Management Plan: Are all key components of a Quality Assurance Plan present?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Does a process exist to identify Network Design project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: What new technologies are being explored in the same area?
- Activity Duration Estimates: How can you use Microsoft Network Design project and Excel to assist in Network Design project risk management?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Do scope statements include the Network Design project objectives and expected deliverables?
- Procurement Audit: Are there any complaints of the suppliers and/or end-users?
- Procurement Audit: Where an electronic auction was used to bid, were all required specifications given equally to tenderers?
- Quality Management Plan: Are best practices and metrics employed to identify issues, progress, performance, etc.?
- Scope Management Plan: Are agendas created for each meeting with meeting objectives, meeting topics, invitee list, and action items from past meetings?
Step-by-step and complete Network Design Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Network Design project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Network Design project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Network Design 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 Network Design 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 Network Design 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 Network Design 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 Network Design project with this in-depth Network Design Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Network Design 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 Network Design 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 Network Design investments work better.
This Network Design 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.
