Start With Why Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

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• The latest quick edition of the Start With Why 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 998 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Start With Why improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:


1. Why were the revisions to auditing standards that clearly stated auditor responsibility for internal control seemingly unheeded in the process of performing audits?
   
   

2. Why appdynamics end user monitoring should be on your radar to complete APM picture how are your customers really experiencing your applications right now?
   
   

3. Why its imperative for financial institutions to respect consumer privacy, provide transparency, build trust & create loyal customers?
   
   

4. Why are you pushing to raise it even further without sufficient information as to the effect on the market of the last increase?
   
   

5. Why is it more effective to create a sales readiness program focused on preparing and validating that reps are ready to sell?
   
   

6. Why should one organization shoulder all the risk in building an infrastructure when it is uncertain that others will join?
   
   

7. Why did you choose to outsource training as opposed to hiring additional internal resources to meet training requirements?
   
   

8. Why do other organizations adopt target costing, in the specific practices, to support new product development strategy?
   
   

9. Why do the reported cases fail to adequately expose the serious reliability issues raised by computerized information?
   
   

10. Why do you have support portfolio beta and potential opportunities for! The correct areas that application portfolio?
    
    


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 Start With Why book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Executing Process Group: How do you prevent staff are just doing busywork to pass the time?
   
   

2. Schedule Management Plan: Is funded schedule margin reasonable and logically distributed?
   
   

3. Initiating Process Group: Do you understand all business (operational), technical, resource and vendor risks associated with the Start With Why project?
   
   

4. Executing Process Group: What does it mean to take a systems view of a Start With Why project?
   
   

5. Process Improvement Plan: The motive is determined by asking, Why do you want to achieve this goal?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Are the financial and business records of your organization stored in a secure fire resistant place?
   
   

7. Project Schedule: What documents, if any, will the subcontractor provide (eg Start With Why project schedule, quality plan etc)?
   
   

8. Risk Audit: For this risk .. what do you need to stop doing, start doing and keep doing?
   
   

9. Variance Analysis: Are the wbs and organizational levels for application of the Start With Why projected overhead costs identified?
   
   

10. WBS Dictionary: Is each control account assigned to a single organizational element directly responsible for the work and identifiable to a single element of the CWBS?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Start With Why project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Start With Why project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Start With Why 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 Start With Why 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 Start With Why 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 Start With Why 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 Start With Why project with this in-depth Start With Why Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Start With Why 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 Start With Why 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 Start With Why investments work better.

This Start With Why 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.