SD-WAN Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the SD-WAN 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which SD-WAN improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Do you easily set application performance priorities, quickly change locations, add or drop link providers, onboard new applications and get alerts on network health application performance?
   
   

2. Is bandwidth allocation and prioritization automatically affected based on centralized policy engine configuration and real time characteristics of WAN access links?
   
   

3. Do you have the problem where your users are using consumer type products to store critical files in the cloud and exposing your corporate data in an insecure way?
   
   

4. Does the solution provide comprehensive protection against a broad range of known security exploits in applications, databases, and operating systems?
   
   

5. How do you securely, rapidly, and consistently connect remote users, distributed teams, applications, workloads, and data across hybrid environments?
   
   

6. What traffic types, applications and respective business priorities and bandwidth usage do you currently have, and plan for in the near future?
   
   

7. What are the areas where cost savings can be achieved on a one time as well as a continuous run time operating model basis, and by how much?
   
   

8. Which option is the name of the process by which your organization license expiration dates are automatically aligned for simple management?
   
   

9. Does the solution provide a detailed analysis of application volume and usage throughout the network based on bytes, packets, and sessions?
   
   

10. Can business priorities and policies be enforced to ensure critical application traffic always has an adequate share of network resources?
    
    


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 SD-WAN book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Member Performance Assessment: Are there any safeguards to prevent intentional or unintentional rating errors?
   
   

2. Project Charter: Pop quiz – which are the same inputs as in the SD-WAN project charter?
   
   

3. Procurement Audit: Does the procurement function/unit understand costumer needs, supply markets and suppliers?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Are all key components of a Quality Assurance Plan present?
   
   

5. Source Selection Criteria: How should comments received in response to a RFP be handled?
   
   

6. Stakeholder Management Plan: How many SD-WAN project staff does this specific process affect?
   
   

7. Project Management Plan: Is there anything you would now do differently on your SD-WAN project based on past experience?
   
   

8. Activity Resource Requirements: How many signatures do you require on a check and does this match what is in your policy and procedures?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was there reasonable justification for the need of the purchase, namely when made towards the end of the financial year?
   
   

10. Probability and Impact Assessment: My SD-WAN project leader has suddenly left your organization, what do you do?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 SD-WAN project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 SD-WAN project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 SD-WAN 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 SD-WAN 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 SD-WAN 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 SD-WAN 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 SD-WAN project with this in-depth SD-WAN Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose SD-WAN 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 SD-WAN 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 SD-WAN investments work better.

This SD-WAN 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.