Software Services Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Software Services 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 992 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 Services improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How to capitalize on the wealth of knowledge and experience that is available in your organization and all the business partners in your value chain?
   
   

2. Does your organization want in the future stages a remote queue join options for same day service as well as future appointment scheduling?
   
   

3. Do wealth managers have the underlying model in place to prepare for future growth and the rapid change in client requirements?
   
   

4. Is there any information on current average handle time by call inquiry type or an average of call handle time for all calls?
   
   

5. Does you organization track and record the history of product changes that occur throughout a products lifecycle?
   
   

6. Does the saas offerings security controls meet all of your organizations regulatory compliance requirements?
   
   

7. How do you ensure that your first production assembly generated from a virtual prototype is going to work?
   
   

8. Do you incorporate the Research Software Services available on the portal into your own Research Platform?
   
   

9. Will there be an automated system to provide posted county price calculations to service County Offices?
   
   

10. Have you really progressed further than the initial use of the tools to manage CAD and Engineering data?
    
    


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 Services book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Risk Audit: What is the effect of globalisation; is business becoming too complex and can the auditor rely on auditing standards?
   
   

2. Variance Analysis: What does a favorable labor efficiency variance mean?
   
   

3. Risk Register: People risk -are people with appropriate skills available to help complete the Software Services project?
   
   

4. Project Portfolio management: How does your organization ensure that Software Services project and program benefits and risks are being managed to optimize the overall value creation from the portfolio?
   
   

5. Resource Breakdown Structure: The list could probably go on, but, the thing that you would most like to know is, How long & How much?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Did your organization calculate the contract value accurately?
   
   

7. Activity Duration Estimates: What does it mean to take a systems view of a Software Services project?
   
   

8. Lessons Learned: How closely did deliverables match what was defined within the Software Services project Scope?
   
   

9. Procurement Management Plan: Are milestone deliverables effectively tracked and compared to Software Services project plan?
   
   

10. Project Performance Report: To what degree are the tasks requirements reflected in the flow and storage of information?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Software Services project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Software Services 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 Services 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 Services investments work better.

This Software Services 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.