Problem Statement Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Problem Statement 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 Problem Statement improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. What kinds of evidence could you collect to demonstrate that the problem exists, the problem is serious, multiple solutions exist, and one solution is the best choice and feasible?
   
   

2. Is the improvement project problem statement clearly articulated and well supported by documented sources of evidence including local and comparative data?
   
   

3. Have you carefully reviewed similar programs to learn what strategies worked under what conditions to secure results?
   
   

4. How can a system be engineered that matches the system outlined in the problem statement using software engineering?
   
   

5. Does the problem statement concisely and convincingly demonstrate that the business need exists and merits solving?
   
   

6. Why it is useful to separate the problem statement from the solution statement during information system analysis?
   
   

7. How do you develop an authentic problem statement that will hook employees and provide a purpose for learning?
   
   

8. How to distinguish between the emotional and the cognitive and how to integrate problem statements in a model?
   
   

9. Does the problem statement clearly reflect the methodology, design, problem statement, sample, and location?
   
   

10. Does your organization use non financial measure about operation and innovation for performance evaluation?
    
    


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 Problem Statement book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Probability and Impact Assessment: What should be the external organizations responsibility vis-à-vis total stake in the Problem Statement project?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Matrix: Which risks need to move on to Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
   
   

3. Project Portfolio management: How does your organization ensure that Problem Statement project and program benefits and risks are being managed to optimize the overall value creation from the portfolio?
   
   

4. Procurement Audit: Is the efficiency of the procurement process regularly evaluated?
   
   

5. Variance Analysis: Can the relationship with problem customers be restructured so that there is a win-win situation?
   
   

6. Executing Process Group: What is the difference between using brainstorming and the Delphi technique for risk identification?
   
   

7. Resource Breakdown Structure: Goals for the Problem Statement project. What is each stakeholders desired outcome for the Problem Statement project?
   
   

8. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the options you found to help people prepare for the exam?
   
   

9. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree are sub-teams possible or necessary?
   
   

10. Stakeholder Management Plan: Who will be responsible for managing and maintaining the Issues Register?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Problem Statement project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Problem Statement project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Problem Statement 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 Problem Statement 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 Problem Statement 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 Problem Statement 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 Problem Statement project with this in-depth Problem Statement Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Problem Statement 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 Problem Statement 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 Problem Statement investments work better.

This Problem Statement 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.