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In roles that span research, design, compute, the Multi cloud and Infrastructure Innovation Team look to the future and focuses on making the seemingly impossible, possible.

More Uses of the OpenStack Toolkit:

  • Develop and execute on meaningful engagement practices in your organization to attract, retain and grow your talent.

  • Ensure you facilitate; respond and provide technical direction to customers regarding operational issues, configuration changes, firmware upgrades and general maintenance.

  • Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive Work Environment.

  • Guide: team up with account team to drive strategic account initiatives; developing trusted advisor relationship with your customers and partners.

  • Collaborate with product and Engineering teams to determine the scope and needs of Automation Testing.

  • Develop deep professional relationships with clients and act as a trusted Technical Advisor for client executives.

  • Manage communications/expectations to customers at all levels to build and strengthen trusted relationships under critical situations.

  • Manage work on escalated cases that are critical, complex product or application issues through in depth analysis, replication efforts and developing effective solutions.

  • Be accountable for designing, developing, implementing, and releasing high quality custom Software Solutions using Scrum.

  • Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from from current trends in business area.

  • Lead: work in tandem with Solutions Engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal Cloud Based Solutions for your organization.

  • Be accountable for creating efficiency and cultural transformation through the curation of new systems and capabilities.

  • Be accountable for building relationships with leaders and client service professionals at all levels to establish trust and develop a productive working environment.

  • Secure that your team uses professional concepts and organization objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.

  • Compute, networking, and storage and the software/hardware ecosystem that supports infrastructure virtualization.

  • Formulate: client needs someone who can jump in and help pick up the technology portion of the SIEM environment.

  • Ensure you are personable, and bring professionalism, intuition, communication and technical agility to your daily interactions.

  • Evaluate: monitor performance characteristics on a regular basis and implement configuration change that provides consistent performance.

  • Lead: document software interfaces and dependencies for Systems Engineering and other microservice developers.

  • Provide technical expertise in System Architecture, drive, and recommend optimal testing strategies.

  • Become a partner and trusted advisor to clients, advising on best fit technologies and Best Practices.

  • Initiate and lead interpersonal efforts to improve overall group productivity and test effect.

  • Guide: act as the technical liaison between your customers and your internal teams during the pre Sales Process.

  • Coordinate: champion the technology by evaluating and staying ahead of Emerging Technologies, tools, and trends.

  • Be accountable for supporting creation of scalable and efficient Process Automation workflows that identify and create reusable automation components.

  • Secure that your strategy identifies technical and operational problems on installed networks, systems, solutions and products.

  • Drive the Sales Process in partnership with the Account Management, by identifying the Technical Decision Maker, getting technical validation, support, and sponsorship.

  • Be accountable for deploying container based systems as Docker or Kubernetes on private and Public Clouds (GCP, OpenStack or AWS).

  • Develop and lead initiatives to drive delivery excellence, improving productivity across your organization, improving delivery quality and standardization.

  • Contribute to Open Source communities share your time, tools, and methodologies to maximize your impact.

 

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 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 OpenStack improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. If there were zero limitations, what would you do differently?

  2. Why should you adopt a OpenStack framework?

  3. Will a OpenStack production readiness review be required?

  4. What are the potential basics of OpenStack fraud?

  5. What do employees need in the short term?

  6. What is out-of-scope initially?

  7. Do OpenStack rules make a reasonable demand on a users capabilities?

  8. Do several people in different organizational units assist with the OpenStack process?

  9. Are losses documented, analyzed, and remedial processes developed to prevent future losses?

  10. What are strategies for increasing support and reducing opposition?


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 994 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: 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 OpenStack project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the OpenStack Project Team have enough people to execute the OpenStack 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 OpenStack 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 OpenStack Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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.