Application Services: What sources do you use to gather information for a Application Services study?

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

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

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The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Application Services specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with…

The latest quick edition of the Application 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 623 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Application Services improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 623 standard requirements:

Are we using Application Services to communicate information about our Cybersecurity Risk Management programs including the effectiveness of those programs to stakeholders, including boards, investors, auditors, and insurers?
What management system can we use to leverage the Application Services experience, ideas, and concerns of the people closest to the work to be done?
When Release Management for new application services is or will be integrated with your ITSM capabilities. How is it integrated?
Is there a completed SIPOC representation, describing the Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, and Customers?
How is release management for new application services integrated with your itsm capabilities?
Were any designed experiments used to generate additional insight into the data analysis?
What sources do you use to gather information for a Application Services study?
Is knowledge gained on process shared and institutionalized?
How will we ensure we get what we expected?
What process should we select for improvement?

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 Application Services book in PDF containing 623 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in…

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

62 step-by-step Application Services Project Management Form Templates covering over 6000 Application Services project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

Project Schedule: Is the Application Services project schedule available for all Application Services project team members to review?
WBS Dictionary: Does the contractors system identify work accomplishment against the schedule plan?
Change Management Plan: Have the business unit contacts been briefed by the Application Services project team?
Risk Audit: What is the implication of budget constraint on this process?
Procurement Audit: Is it assessed whether well-functioning markets exist for the departments services/tasks?
WBS Dictionary: Are indirect costs charged to the appropriate indirect pools and incurring organization?
Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: In what way has the programme come up with innovative measures for problem-solving?
Planning Process Group: What will you do to minimize the impact should a risk event occur?
Executing Process Group: How will professionals learn what is expected from them what the deliverables are?
Project Schedule: Have all Application Services project delays been adequately accounted for, communicated to all stakeholders and adjustments made in overall Application Services project schedule?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

1.1 Application Services project Charter
1.2 Stakeholder Register
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix

2.0 Planning Process Group:

2.1 Application 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 Application 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 Application 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 Application 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 Application 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 Application Services project with this in-depth Application Services Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

Diagnose Application 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 Application 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 Application Services investments work better.

This Application Services All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person: