Improve your chances of success when contracting out development work
How does your development project tell What changes between its releases?
Which agile practices does your team adopt?
How long will the project team take to complete the project?
How large is your total software organization?
...Find the answers to these, and more, questions with this Agile Contracts Toolkit:
- Measure impact of Agile transformations in non software development programs.
- Incorporate other non functional requirements into your system as needed.
- Possibly do Agile development when contracts are involved.
- Evaluate the project if the scope is realized according to the client requirements.
- Manage security and privacy risks and requirements in Agile software projects.
- Manage the benefits of your Agile initiatives.
- Lead your group when policy limits your options.
- Display a hierarchy of themes, features and backlog items.
- Achieve a balance in formality of communication in Agile distributed environments.
HOW THIS TOOLKIT WORKS:
Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Agile Contracts Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Agile Contracts 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 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Agile Contracts improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:
- When determining the business value of a project, which terms represents the money or value your organization receives back as a measure against its investment?
- How do you deal with the client concern that the contractual clarity and upfront planning /milestones under waterfall are absent under Agile?
- How does a project exploit the flexibility and focus of Agile while providing an indicator of the teams performance toward the overall plan?
- What delivery responsibilities and accountabilities will the supplier need in order to accept the desired commercial risk?
- Which prerequisites should be in place for a supplier selection and contracting process that follows an Agile approach?
- What are the mechanisms connecting fixed price contracts, incomplete specification and failed software projects?
- Which agile methodologies uses the concept of money for nothing and change for free as a basis for contracting?
- Do you know whether the underpinning contracts support short development timelines and undefined deliverables?
- Why do other organizations create contracts with outside entities like consultants, contractors and partners?
- Will the agile plm implementation process be easy enough and affordable for your organization of your size?
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 Agile Contracts book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Agile Contracts Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Agile Contracts project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Activity Cost Estimates: Were the tasks or work products prepared by the consultant useful?
- Project or Phase Close-Out: What are the mandatory communication needs for each stakeholder?
- Scope Management Plan: Process groups where do scope management processes fit in?
- Quality Management Plan: Can you perform this task or activity in a more effective manner?
- Probability and Impact Assessment: Is the present organizational structure for handling the Agile Contracts project sufficient?
- Project Scope Statement: Has the Agile Contracts project scope statement been reviewed as part of the baseline process?
- Planning Process Group: Is the identification of the problems, inequalities and gaps, with respective causes, clear in the Agile Contracts project?
- Initiating Process Group: When are the deliverables to be generated in each phase?
- Quality Audit: How are you auditing your organizations compliance with regulations?
- Executing Process Group: Why do you need a good WBS to use Agile Contracts project management software?
Step-by-step and complete Agile Contracts Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Agile Contracts project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Agile Contracts project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts project with this in-depth Agile Contracts Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Agile Contracts 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 Agile Contracts and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
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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.
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CONTENTS:
Checklists:
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on CONTRACT.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on SYSTEM.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on PRODUCT.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on DEVELOPMENT.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on BUSINESS.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on CUSTOMER.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on WORK.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on PROJECT.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on TEAM.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on ORGANIZATION.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on TIME.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on PROGRAM.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on AGILE.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on MANAGEMENT.pdf
Checklists:Agile Contracts Checklist Report on USER.pdf
STEP 1 Get your bearings:
STEP 1 Get your bearings:Agile Contracts Self-Assessment Pre-Filled EXAMPLE.xlsx
STEP 1 Get your bearings:Agile_Contracts_Quick_Exploratory_Self-Assessment_Guide.pdf
STEP 2 Set concrete goals tasks dates and numbers you can track:
STEP 2 Set concrete goals tasks dates and numbers you can track:Agile_Contracts.pdf
STEP 2 Set concrete goals tasks dates and numbers you can track:Agile Contracts Self-Assessment.xlsx
..and the Project Management resources in 'STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy' as described above.
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