Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Software Change, Configuration and Release Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Software Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Software Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 995 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:
- Does the update, deletion or alteration of your organization structure or identifier configuration require any system software or hardware modifications?
- Does the update, deletion or alteration of any personnel identifier configuration require any system software or hardware modifications?
- How much of the recent software change activity has been due to program errors and how much has been due to change in requirements?
- Do your software plans include developing and maintaining a software accomplishments summary or software configuration index?
- Is there a way to save and load on demand pre defined hardware and software configurations for the entire platform?
- How many things can go wrong between software packaging, installation, configuration, tuning and deployment?
- Which information does the Financial Management for IT Services process deliver to Service Level Management?
- Which would be the most useful tool to complete your rack & stack and initial configuration of the system?
- How do other organizations store or record configurations and parameters that impact the trading system?
- Is the change made solely to return the system into specification of the most recently cleared device?
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 Change, Configuration and Release Management book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Software Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Software Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Software Change, Configuration and Release Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Software Change, Configuration and Release Management project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Formal Acceptance: Did the Software Change, Configuration and Release Management project manager and team act in a professional and ethical manner?
- Team Operating Agreement: Do you vary your voice pace, tone and pitch to engage participants and gain involvement?
- Schedule Management Plan: Where is the scheduling tool and who has access to it to view it?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Do you think many other organizations could apply this methodology, or does each organization need to create its own methodology?
- Planning Process Group: Are the necessary foundations in place to ensure the sustainability of the results of the Software Change, Configuration and Release Management project?
- Project Performance Report: To what degree does the team possess adequate membership to achieve its ends?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Consider the examples of poor quality in information technology Software Change, Configuration and Release Management projects presented in the What Went Wrong?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: What is the drawback in using qualitative Software Change, Configuration and Release Management project selection techniques?
- Scope Management Plan: What are the risks that could significantly affect procuring consultant staff for the Software Change, Configuration and Release Management project?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there ways to reduce the time it takes to get something approved?
Step-by-step and complete Software Change, Configuration and Release Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Software Change, Configuration and Release Management project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Software Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management project with this in-depth Software Change, Configuration and Release Management Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Software Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management 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 Change, Configuration and Release Management investments work better.
This Software Change, Configuration and Release Management 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.
