OpenStack Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the OpenStack 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which OpenStack improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Do you believe that open cloud technologies in general constitute catalysts for innovation within the entire organization when compared to traditional commercial cloud software?
   
   

2. What is the key reason for open cloud technologies being the better catalyst for business innovation compared to traditional commercial cloud software?
   
   

3. Which is the VMware product through which VMware NSX, other than VMware vRealize Automation, provides automation of the entire data center?
   
   

4. Do you get uniform, automated security policy, protection and compliance across lateral attack surfaces and multiple environments?
   
   

5. What is the difference between inter-VM inter-server communication with OpenStack and the same configuration without cloud OS?
   
   

6. How does OpenStack flow evolve from one version to the next and how much similarity is there in the shape of paths?
   
   

7. What are the required processes and organizational changes for a successful implementation of open technologies?
   
   

8. What is the advantage of live migration of virtual machines with VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware NSX?
   
   

9. Can the implementation display a level of availability and reliability consistent with your needs and budget?
   
   

10. Which types of Cloud services are already used in your business and which in particular are planned for use?
    
    


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 OpenStack book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Does all OpenStack project documentation reside in a common repository for easy access?
   
   

2. Assumption and Constraint Log: Are funding and staffing resource estimates sufficiently detailed and documented for use in planning and tracking the OpenStack project?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Are estimating assumptions and constraints captured?
   
   

4. Initiating Process Group: Are you properly tracking the progress of the OpenStack project and communicating the status to stakeholders?
   
   

5. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: When performing is split among two or more roles, is the work clearly defined so that the efforts are coordinated and the communication is clear?
   
   

6. Stakeholder Management Plan: How are stakeholders chosen and what roles might they have on a OpenStack project?
   
   

7. Stakeholder Management Plan: Contradictory information between different documents?
   
   

8. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that the range and quality of its accommodation, catering and transportation services are appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Matrix: What are the preparations required for facing difficulties?
   
   

10. Planning Process Group: What good practices or successful experiences or transferable examples have been identified?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 OpenStack project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 OpenStack project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 OpenStack 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 OpenStack 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 OpenStack 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 OpenStack 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 OpenStack project with this in-depth OpenStack Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose OpenStack 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 OpenStack 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 OpenStack investments work better.

This OpenStack 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.