Software Assurance Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Software 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 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 Software Assurance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. What architecture level interventions could facilitate assessment, across a supply chain, of consistency of an evolving system with its defined architectural intent?
   
   

2. What training does your organization offer related to defining security requirements, secure architecture and design, secure coding practices, and security testing?
   
   

3. How do processes, practices, and tools contribute to creating an affordable, secure development process that can be implemented successfully?
   
   

4. Does your organization have an executive level officer responsible for the security of your organizations software products and/or processes?
   
   

5. Are customers required to cover all on premises servers with active software assurance to get extended security updates on premises?
   
   

6. Does your project have your organizational chart that clearly identifies the software development and Software Assurance functions?
   
   

7. Which assurance activities provide the biggest increase in justified confidence that a system will behave acceptably when fielded?
   
   

8. Can customers with Software Assurance renew it through Open Value and avoid having to pay for licenses and Software Assurance?
   
   

9. Is there a need for a tool that makes it easier to follow resource, cost and schedule issues of product assurance activities?
   
   

10. What are the policies and practices for reviewing design and architecture security impacts in relation to deploying patches?
    
    


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 Software Assurance book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Quality Metrics: There are many reasons to shore up quality-related metrics, and what metrics are important?
   
   

2. Duration Estimating Worksheet: Does the Software Assurance project provide innovative ways for stakeholders to overcome obstacles or deliver better outcomes?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Is there a formal set of procedures supporting Stakeholder Management?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Are issues raised, assessed, actioned, and resolved in a timely and efficient manner?
   
   

5. Risk Audit: Are your rules, by-laws and practices non-discriminatory?
   
   

6. Lessons Learned: What on the Software Assurance project worked well and was effective in the delivery of the product?
   
   

7. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: How many potential communications channels exist on the Software Assurance project?
   
   

8. Project Management Plan: Are there any scope changes proposed for a previously authorized Software Assurance project?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Matrix: Do requirements demand the use of new analysis, design, or testing methods?
   
   

10. Lessons Learned: What skills did you need that were missing on this Software Assurance project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Software Assurance project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Software 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 Software 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 Software 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 Software 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 Software 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 Software Assurance project with this in-depth Software Assurance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Software 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 Software 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 Software Assurance investments work better.

This Software 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.