SaaS Data Governance Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the SaaS Data Governance 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 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which SaaS Data Governance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. Do you have an extremely large number of data assets or have specialized regulatory requirements for data governance that necessitate a data catalog?
   
   

2. What is the level of understanding within your organization of the cyber and privacy risks arising from your third parties or suppliers across areas?
   
   

3. How confident are you that the IT/security team is aware of all IaaS and SaaS usage by line of business employees at your organization?
   
   

4. Do you have comprehensive data needed to hold SaaS providers accountable to meeting expected performance levels written in the SLAs?
   
   

5. How are your organizations handling the challenges involved in becoming data driven while getting rid of the stumbling blocks?
   
   

6. Which application would you recommend to improve the processing of accounts receivable and to reduce outstanding invoices?
   
   

7. What technological, digital, regulatory and economic trends can influence your business or are currently influencing it?
   
   

8. Is a data governance program in place enterprise wide and, if so, does it encompass business leads as well as IT?
   
   

9. Are the interactions between your organization and your portfolio department organized via designated units?
   
   

10. How are other businesses in your industry incorporating ESG into investment approaches and risk management?
    
    


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 SaaS Data Governance book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Schedule Management Plan: Are adequate resources provided for the quality assurance function?
   
   

2. Activity Duration Estimates: Are SaaS Data Governance project results verified and SaaS Data Governance project documents archived?
   
   

3. Risk Audit: What are the costs associated with late delivery or a defective product?
   
   

4. Issue Log: Persistence; will users learn a work around or will they be bothered every time?
   
   

5. Lessons Learned: Did the SaaS Data Governance project improve the team members reputations, skills, personal development?
   
   

6. Activity Cost Estimates: Review – what are some common errors in activities to avoid?
   
   

7. Lessons Learned: Did the delivered product meet the specified requirements and goals of the SaaS Data Governance project?
   
   

8. Procurement Management Plan: Pareto diagrams, statistical sampling, flow charting or trend analysis used quality monitoring?
   
   

9. Project Scope Statement: Are there specific processes you will use to evaluate and approve/reject changes?
   
   

10. Probability and Impact Assessment: What should be the gestation period for the SaaS Data Governance project with specific technology?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 SaaS Data Governance project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 SaaS Data Governance project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 SaaS Data Governance 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 SaaS Data Governance 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 SaaS Data Governance 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 SaaS Data Governance 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 SaaS Data Governance project with this in-depth SaaS Data Governance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose SaaS Data Governance 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 SaaS Data Governance 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 SaaS Data Governance investments work better.

This SaaS Data Governance 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.