SQL Server: How large is the gap between current performance and the customer-specified (goal) performance?

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with…

The latest quick edition of the SQL Server 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 631 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which SQL Server improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 631 standard requirements:

Microsoft; How many servers do you have in use with installations of major Microsoft products, such as Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Sharepoint Server?
Marketing budgets are tighter, consumers are more skeptical, and social media has changed forever the way we talk about SQL Server. How do we gain traction?
How large is the gap between current performance and the customer-specified (goal) performance?
What might a government organization or major institutional investor ask for?
What about server applications, like sql server or biztalk server?
Think of your SQL Server project. what are the main functions?
Can Microsoft SQL Server Express be contacted?
Was a data collection plan established?
Is there a Performance Baseline?
Is there a standardized process?

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 SQL Server book in PDF containing 631 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in…

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

Requirements Management Plan: Have stakeholders been instructed in the Change Control process?
Initiating Process Group: The SQL Server project Managers have maximum authority in which type of organization?
Team Member Performance Assessment: What are best practices for delivering and developing training evaluations to maximize the benefits of leveraging emerging technologies?
Activity Duration Estimates: How does SQL Server project integration management relate to the SQL Server project life cycle, stakeholders, and the other SQL Server project management knowledge areas?
Scope Management Plan: Are issues raised, assessed, actioned, and resolved in a timely and efficient manner?
Team Performance Assessment: To what degree are these categories of skills either actually or potentially represented across the membership?
WBS Dictionary: The total budget for the contract (including estimates for authorized but unpriced work)?
Requirements Documentation: How does what is being described meet the business need?
Procurement Management Plan: What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on the next SQL Server project?
Quality Audit: Are there appropriate means for intervening if necessary?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

1.1 SQL Server project Charter
1.2 Stakeholder Register
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix

2.0 Planning Process Group:

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

Diagnose SQL Server 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 SQL Server 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 SQL Server investments work better.

This SQL Server All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person: