Splunk Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

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

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:

  1. Do you have documented; robust & tested business continuity plans to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident?

  2. Do you have a seamless and user friendly experience for customers across multiple channels and devices, while also ensuring security and privacy?

  3. Did the incident involve or was likely to involve a hacking or ransomware, spyware or unauthorised access to your organizations IT system?

  4. When considering a software as a service offering, will your organization be open to advance payment for the annual subscription license?

  5. What benefits has your organization achieved as a result of its preference for technology solutions with intrinsic security features?

  6. Are you focused on improving team velocity, increasing application security, scaling your user base, or controlling costs?

  7. Does your policy cover all cybersecurity incidents you might experience, or does it exclude certain cost categories?

  8. Do you have a physical security policy in place to protect laptops, mobile devices and other electronic assets?

  9. What responsibility does an enterprise have to keep its information systems from being used to harm others?

  10. What types of software licenses are in place and being considered – on premises, saas, usage based, other?


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

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Initiating Process Group: The Splunk project managers have maximum authority in which type of organization?

  2. Team Operating Agreement: Do you prevent individuals from dominating the meeting?

  3. Requirements Documentation: How will requirements be documented and who signs off on them?

  4. Risk Management Plan: Are status updates being made on schedule and are the updates clearly described?

  5. Risk Audit: Do you have written and signed agreements/contracts in place for each paid staff member?

  6. Closing Process Group: Specific - is the objective clear in terms of what, how, when, and where the situation will be changed?

  7. Cost Management Plan: Were Splunk project team members involved in the development of activity & task decomposition?

  8. Executing Process Group: Is activity definition the first process involved in Splunk project time management?

  9. Planning Process Group: In what way has the Splunk project come up with innovative measures for problem-solving?

  10. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Can the contractor substantiate work package and planning package budgets?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Splunk project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Splunk project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Splunk 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 Splunk 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 Splunk 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 Splunk 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 Splunk project with this in-depth Splunk Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Splunk 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 Splunk 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 Splunk investments work better.

This Splunk 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.