Readiness and Assurance Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the 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 989 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Readiness and Assurance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 989 standard requirements:


1. 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?
   
   

2. Have measurable indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of corrective actions to address previously identified issues/problems been identified and included in the evaluation program?
   
   

3. Do exercise plans include clear, measurable objectives that provide the basis for evaluating/validating the performance of response capabilities of each participating organization?
   
   

4. Will use to information assurance organization for it takes to explore your site function properly and security executives continues to protect systems to have read and security?
   
   

5. Are evaluated findings from program and exercise evaluations by organizations external to the facility/site or activity acknowledged and included in corrective action plan?
   
   

6. How does the NIST process assure that a standard has undergone sufficient review of interoperability and cybersecurity and is ready for consideration by regulators?
   
   

7. Does the performance deficiency represent a substantive failure to establish or implement an adequate program, process, procedure, or quality oversight function?
   
   

8. What, if any, accounting, planning, data base management, quality assurance, communication, training, resource development, advocacy & marketing systems exist?
   
   

9. Are financial reports derived directly from the underlying accounting systems and is there a quality assurance process over the compilation of the reports?
   
   

10. Has the quality assurance plan been updated and issued to address testing, identified deficiencies, and startup, transition, and operation activities?
    
    


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 Readiness and Assurance book in PDF containing 989 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Is there no evidence that the consultants participating in the Readiness and Assurance project design released information to contractors competing for the prime contract?
   
   

2. Procurement Audit: Is an appropriated degree of standardization of goods and services respected?
   
   

3. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Who can contribute financial or technical resources towards the work?
   
   

4. Formal Acceptance: How does your team plan to obtain formal acceptance on your Readiness and Assurance project?
   
   

5. Cost Baseline: Verify business objectives. Are others appropriate, and well-articulated?
   
   

6. Change Request: What should be regulated in a change control operating instruction?
   
   

7. Milestone List: What would happen if a delivery of material was one week late?
   
   

8. Project Schedule: Is the Readiness and Assurance project schedule available for all Readiness and Assurance project team members to review?
   
   

9. WBS Dictionary: Are the bases and rates for allocating costs from each indirect pool consistently applied?
   
   

10. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: What is the stakeholders power and status in relation to the Readiness and Assurance project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Readiness and Assurance project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 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 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 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 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 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 Readiness and Assurance project with this in-depth Readiness and Assurance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose 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 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 Readiness and Assurance investments work better.

This 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.