Operations Readiness and Assurance Toolkit

Description

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

The latest quick edition of the Operations Readiness and Assurance 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 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Operations Readiness and Assurance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:

Does the exercise program include provisions for incorporating objectives in each exercise that are designed to validate revised plans/procedures, corrective actions, and program improvements?
Have measurable indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of corrective actions to address previously identified issues/problems been identified and included in the evaluation program?
Do exercise plans include clear, measurable objectives that provide the basis for evaluating/validating the performance of response capabilities of each participating organization?
Are evaluated findings from program and exercise evaluations by organizations external to the facility/site or activity acknowledged and included in corrective action plan?
Does the performance deficiency represent a substantive failure to establish or implement an adequate program, process, procedure, or quality oversight function?
Is the scenario in the Exercise Plan consistent with the set of exercise objectives and does it explicitly support an evaluation/validation of each objective?
How will the delivery or commissioning of any of the component projects impact the ability to deliver the overall program within the approved budget?
Have short range schedules been developed containing information about specific aspects of emergency response to be tested in the current year?
How much assurance do you really and legally give about your organizations ability to regain control and continue operations in the near term?
Are the procedures and systems that need to be conducted jointly by the linked jurisdictions well defined and in place to support linking?

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 Operations Readiness and Assurance book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

62 step-by-step Operations Readiness and Assurance Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Operations Readiness and Assurance project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

Human Resource Management Plan: Are Operations Readiness and Assurance project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?
Procurement Management Plan: Is there a formal process for updating the Operations Readiness and Assurance project baseline?
Decision Log: Adversarial environment. is your opponent open to a non-traditional workflow, or will it likely challenge anything you do?
Procurement Management Plan: Does the business case include how the Operations Readiness and Assurance project aligns with your organizations strategic goals & objectives?
Schedule Management Plan: What is the difference between % Complete and % work?
Human Resource Management Plan: How do you determine what key skills and talents are needed to meet the objectives. Is your organization primarily focused on a specific industry?
Probability and Impact Assessment: Is the present organizational structure for handling the Operations Readiness and Assurance project sufficient?
Activity Duration Estimates: Research risk management software. Are many products available?
Requirements Management Plan: Have stakeholders been instructed in the Change Control process?
Project Scope Statement: Are there backup strategies for key members of the Operations Readiness and Assurance project?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

1.1 Operations Readiness and Assurance project Charter
1.2 Stakeholder Register
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix

2.0 Planning Process Group:

2.1 Operations Readiness and Assurance project Management Plan
2.2 Scope Management Plan
2.3 Requirements Management Plan
2.4 Requirements Documentation
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
2.6 Operations Readiness and Assurance 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 Operations Readiness and Assurance 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 Operations Readiness and Assurance 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 Operations Readiness and Assurance 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 Operations Readiness and Assurance project with this in-depth Operations Readiness and Assurance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

Diagnose Operations Readiness and Assurance 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 Operations Readiness and Assurance 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 Operations Readiness and Assurance investments work better.

This Operations Readiness and Assurance 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.