Cloud Operation Toolkit

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Collaborate closely with Product Management, engineering development, DevOps and Cloud Operation, System Engineering, Professional Services, and Product Marketing to manage End To End program execution to develop, deliver, and sustain innovative Cloud Services products.

More Uses of the Cloud Operation Toolkit:

  • Pilot: architecture, streamline and automate companies Cloud Operations and processes through build and Test Automation.

  • Ensure you aid; build and maintain Cloud Operations tools for monitoring, notifications, trending, and analysis, to achieve high efficiency in Cloud Operations through Automation Tools and self repair utilities.

  • Provide technical guidance and manage timelines, milestones, migration goals, and business Transformation Strategies.

  • Develop, maintain, and drive a continuous enhancement culture for a robust Knowledge Management system for the Cloud Operations team and its partners.

  • Serve as client facing support for savings dashboard and invoicing Single Point of Contact to clients for all operational aspects of dashboard and invoice requirements, build, implementation, Post Production monitoring, etc.

  • Establish that your operation oversees all phases of the project, coordinating with business sponsors, vendors, and other relevant areas of IT throughout.

  • Ensure you outpace; build tools to enhance performance, scalability and observability of resources shared between multiple projects in production.

  • Establish Product Line gross margins working with cross functional teams for monthly reporting, quarterly forecasting cycles, and annual operating and Strategic Plans.

  • Manage critical customer issues and facilitate communication across functional teams with support, sales engineers, Cloud Operation, Product Managers and various Engineering Groups.

  • Manage work with customers to understand and account for business and technical issues, respond to user problems, account for new technologies, and present deliverables.

  • Develop, maintain and drive a culture of continuous enhancement for a robust Knowledge Management system for the Cloud Operations team.

  • Confirm your organization ensures all deliverables and commitments are met and the project is in compliance with relevant standards and methodologies.

  • Manage work with the It Security Team, Solution Architects, and Cloud Operations Team with any security related issues that arise and maintain a log of operational activities performed.

  • Manage multiple Technical Projects simultaneously, and effectively manage Project Teams to meet Project Scope, timing, and cost goals.

  • Perform system automation tasks, system planning, System Support, System Monitoring, platform monitoring, diagnostics and troubleshooting.

  • Analyze, install, acquire, modify and support operating systems and middleware, with consideration for resiliency and Disaster Recovery requirements.

  • Lead the monthly on call rotation for off hours support of Production Environments and critical issue response.

  • Use and own the specifications of your tooling set related to monitoring, telemetry, reliability, automation for End To End service.

  • Identify opportunities and implement solutions to enhance the reliability and manageability of mission critical systems.

  • Manage work with the Cloud Operations Management, Software Architects, Software Developers, Infrastructure Engineers, and Security Analysts to design Cloud Architectures for complex, large scale applications.

  • Help design, test and deploy technical solutions that are innovate and leverage new technologies to help modernize the program.

  • Audit: review current and future environment designs and executes initiatives to reduce failures and defects and improve overall performance.

  • Develop, communicate, collaborate, and monitor standard processes to promote the long term health and sustainability of operational development tasks.

  • Be accountable for selecting the most relevant tools/techniques to meet specific client requirements as Business Case, pricing, or complex Financial Analysis and interpreting and reporting on outputs.

  • Guide: partner effectively with the Engineering Organization to provide supportability inputs and effectively manage the roll out of new products and versions.

  • Establish: partner with Service Providers with platform engineering, monitoring, DevOps, and Product Development Teams to build End To End solutions that are resilient and scalable.

  • Evaluate: interface with Development Teams to communicate issues and recommend improvements in respective applications.

  • Provide management and Consulting Services to Support Cloud services and security for both classified and SBU Private Cloud Operations.

  • Ensure you raise; build the necessary capacity to Support Engineering, product, and Cloud Operations Teams throughout the DevOps lifecycle.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Cloud Operation 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 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cloud Operation improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Is there a clear Cloud Operation case definition?

  2. How can you incorporate support to ensure safe and effective use of Cloud Operation into the services that you provide?

  3. Have you made assumptions about the shape of the future, particularly its impact on your customers and competitors?

  4. How can a Cloud Operation test verify your ideas or assumptions?

  5. What are the Operational Costs after Cloud Operation deployment?

  6. Are Cloud Operation vulnerabilities categorized and prioritized?

  7. Who should make the Cloud Operation decisions?

  8. How do you set Cloud Operation stretch targets and how do you get people to not only participate in setting these stretch targets but also that they strive to achieve these?

  9. Is a Cloud Operation breakthrough on the horizon?

  10. Where do you need Cloud Operation 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 Cloud Operation book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Cloud Operation project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Cloud Operation Project Team have enough people to execute the Cloud Operation Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Cloud Operation Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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 Cloud Operation 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 Cloud Operation 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 Cloud Operation project with this in-depth Cloud Operation Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Cloud Operation 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 Cloud Operation 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 Cloud Operation investments work better.

This Cloud Operation 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.