Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Software Lifecycle Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Software Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle Management specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Software Lifecycle 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 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 Software Lifecycle Management improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:
- How did it suddenly become possible when the long product research timeline is also mirrored by a typically stretched software development lifecycle in response to the strict regulatory demands?
- Does your organization have a documented set of controls that it uses to ensure the separation of data and security information among customer applications?
- Does your organization perform background checks on personnel with administrative or other privileged access to servers, applications or customer data?
- What is the minimum timing for your organization staff to be on board in order to receive training and become proficient to support the application?
- What staffing will your organization need to have in place to support the application once you have met your warranty and maintenance obligations?
- Do your suppliers use sound security development and management practices throughout the software acquisition and development lifecycle?
- Does the application provide the ability to create and maintain shared assets that are used throughout one or multiple websites?
- How has the global contract lifecycle management software market performed so far and how will it perform in the coming years?
- Which phase of the software lifecycle deals with anticipating customer needs and bundling and adding products accordingly?
- Do you provide consulting services on the process changes necessary to adopt your tools into the software lifecycle?
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 Lifecycle Management book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Software Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Software Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Software Lifecycle Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Software Lifecycle Management project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Closing Process Group: How well did the chosen processes fit the needs of the Software Lifecycle Management project?
- Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Who is influential in the Software Lifecycle Management project area (both thematic and geographic areas)?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Describe a Software Lifecycle Management project that suffered from scope creep. Could it have been avoided?
- Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Accuracy: what design will lead to accurate information?
- Project Management Plan: If the Software Lifecycle Management project is complex or scope is specialized, do you have appropriate and/or qualified staff available to perform the tasks?
- Procurement Audit: Was the tender clearly and properly specified, including evaluation criteria and knowing about the market and therefore not over-prescriptive and receptive to innovation?
- Lessons Learned: What was the methodology behind successful learning experiences, and how might they be applied to the broader challenge of your organizations knowledge management?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Contradictory information between different documents?
- Procurement Audit: Does your organization use existing contracts where possible to avoid the cost of bidding?
- Quality Management Plan: What other teams / processes would be impacted by changes to the current process, and how?
Step-by-step and complete Software Lifecycle Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Software Lifecycle Management project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Software Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle Management project with this in-depth Software Lifecycle Management Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Software Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle Management investments work better.
This Software Lifecycle 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.
