Software Strategy Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How would an executive of your organization react to finding that investors are now looking at environmental attributes of organizations when determining risk and making investment decisions?
   
   

2. Has your organization integrated software into the management strategy, including using it to institutionalize organizational strengths and capture tacit knowledge on an iterative basis?
   
   

3. Has your organization used software to create beneficial feedback cycles that increase productivity, reduce cycle times and defects, and integrate production and delivery processes?
   
   

4. Will your potential partner work with you on loyalty strategy, stakeholder alignment, and program construct to develop a program that is custom tailored to your brand?
   
   

5. Do general measures as increased productivity, as evidenced by reduced cycle times and lower defect rates, reflect the benefits of a successful software strategy?
   
   

6. Does your organization explicitly and consciously perceive the implications of the software strategies and use on the competitiveness and business success?
   
   

7. How aggressively is your organization pursuing strategies and/or technologies for digitization, specifically in the supply chain?
   
   

8. Does your organization embrace and integrate information technology as part of its business strategies and core competencies?
   
   

9. Does your organization closely integrate or couple the software and business strategies beyond mere alignment?
   
   

10. What good is that if your platform makes it hard to update and enhance your loyalty program over time?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Human Resource Management Plan: Is there general agreement & acceptance of the current status and progress of the Software Strategy project?
   
   

2. Risk Audit: Should additional substantive testing be conducted because of the risk audit results?
   
   

3. Team Member Performance Assessment: How do you work together to improve teaching and learning?
   
   

4. Project Scope Statement: Where and how does the team fit within your organization structure?
   
   

5. Human Resource Management Plan: Is the Software Strategy project sponsor clearly communicating the business case or rationale for why this Software Strategy project is needed?
   
   

6. Risk Register: Is further information required before making a decision?
   
   

7. Quality Management Plan: Does a prospective decision remain the same regardless of what the data show is?
   
   

8. Quality Audit: Has a written procedure been established to identify devices during all stages of receipt, reconditioning, distribution and installation so that mix-ups are prevented?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Matrix: How do risks change during the Software Strategy projects life cycle?
   
   

10. Project Management Plan: Are calculations and results of analyzes essentially correct?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Software Strategy project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Software Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy investments work better.

This Software Strategy 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.