Software Selection Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Software Selection 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 996 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 Selection improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:


1. Do you use software to set your business strategy, to set your financial strategy, to lay out your procurement strategy, to consider the legal implications of your contracts, to engage management?
   
   

2. Are there potential cost reductions inherent in a differentiation of logistics practices for various products, portions of a product line, on markets?
   
   

3. Is there a clear vision making project and new product software selection straightforward and closely related to strategic goals and processes?
   
   

4. Is there a clear vision making project and new software selection straightforward and closely related to strategic goals and processes?
   
   

5. Which type of suppliers do you consider your prime supplier or trusted partner for mobile software selection and deployments?
   
   

6. How do other organizations replace a solution to fit your organization needs and wade through the red tape and frustration?
   
   

7. How quickly and professionally has the solution provider addressed the project and technical support challenges?
   
   

8. How do instructional designers gain competency using and selecting appropriate digital media development tools?
   
   

9. Is the selection effort focused on more than the limited functional needs of the financial accounting group?
   
   

10. Does your organization have team members who will be able to implement, customize, and manage the software?
    
    


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 Selection book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Probability and Impact Assessment: Is it necessary to deeply assess all Software Selection project risks?
   
   

2. Risk Audit: Does your organization have a social media policy and procedure?
   
   

3. Probability and Impact Matrix: Were there any Software Selection projects similar to this one in existence?
   
   

4. Activity Duration Estimates: What distinguishes one organization from another in this area?
   
   

5. Change Request: Why were your requested changes rejected or not made?
   
   

6. Source Selection Criteria: What are the steps in performing a cost/tech tradeoff?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: Are advance payments to employees properly authorized and controlled?
   
   

8. Probability and Impact Matrix: Are there new risks that mitigation strategies might introduce?
   
   

9. Quality Audit: What is the collective experience of the team to be assigned to an audit?
   
   

10. Cost Management Plan: Do Software Selection project managers participating in the Software Selection project know the Software Selection projects true status first hand?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Software Selection project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Software Selection 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 Selection 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 Selection investments work better.

This Software Selection 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.