SSIS Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How do you ensure that the means established to communicate with each other are in fact effective, and that the right information is finding its way to the right people at the right time?
   
   

2. Does the toolset allow multiple developers to work on the same project concurrently, with the ability for multiple user input into modifications stored on a shared repository?
   
   

3. How would you configure a data flow task so that it can transfer data to different table based on your organization name in a source table column?
   
   

4. Is the portal source code that will be provided as a part of the transition compatible with non visual access requirements for your organization?
   
   

5. How can the Audit transformation be configured to provide additional system variables or user variables to the data flow?
   
   

6. Does the toolset schedule, coordinate, and execute all the steps involved in populating a data mart on a regular basis?
   
   

7. How can an application possibly know which, if any, of the addresses on file for a customer are correct?
   
   

8. Is the data replicated to a secondary or remote site or between geographically disperse cloud locations?
   
   

9. What opportunities exist to dramatically improve your business based on improved access to information?
   
   

10. Is your goal to just move the data as fast as possible with little regard to support or extensibility?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Stakeholder Management Plan: Has the scope management document been updated and distributed to help prevent scope creep?
   
   

2. Project Portfolio management: Regularly review and revise the SSIS project portfolio (eg several times a year) are done?
   
   

3. Scope Management Plan: Which statement about customer expectations is not true?
   
   

4. Team Member Performance Assessment: Should a ratee get a copy of all the raters documents about the employees performance?
   
   

5. Team Member Status Report: Are your organizations SSIS projects more successful over time?
   
   

6. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are the schedule estimates reasonable given the SSIS project?
   
   

7. Stakeholder Management Plan: Do SSIS project teams & team members report on status / activities / progress?
   
   

8. Planning Process Group: Will the products created live up to the necessary quality?
   
   

9. Team Member Performance Assessment: What are the standards or expectations for success?
   
   

10. Change Management Plan: How does the principle of senders and receivers make the SSIS project communications effort more complex?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 SSIS project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 SSIS project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 SSIS 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 SSIS 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 SSIS 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 SSIS 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 SSIS project with this in-depth SSIS Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose SSIS 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 SSIS 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 SSIS investments work better.

This SSIS 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.