Automated Planning Toolkit

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Orchestrate Automated Planning: when facing a stressful situation (professional or personal) what methods do you use to cope.

More Uses of the Automated Planning Toolkit:

  • Lead Automated Planning: implement and maintain cloud based infrastructure, security access policies, and automated provisioning.

  • Orchestrate Automated Planning: partner with business/operations/product and program teams to consult, develop and implement KPIs, automated reporting/process solutions and data infrastructure improvements to meet Business Needs.

  • Perform manual and automated security testing of applications, infrastructure, and/or platforms to discover security vulnerabilities.

  • Run automated Security Tools and perform manual testing against environment to identify areas of risk.

  • Arrange that your strategy performs and coordinates system Verification And Validation test activities utilizing Automated Testing tools and concepts.

  • Integrate soar platform with other Security Tools and APIs to execute automated workflows.

  • Be accountable for creating and executing Test Plans, testing approaches and strategies, use of Defect Tracking tools, and exposure to Automated Testing tools.

  • Confirm your enterprise follows up on deficiencies identified in monitoring review, self assessments, automated assessments, and Internal And External Audits to ensure that appropriate remediation measures have been taken.

  • Establish new, scalable, efficient, automated processes for tracking and reporting on progress of marketing campaigns and activity.

  • Support continuous Automated Testing activity throughout Agile Development iterations by running tests, reporting issues and writing Test Cases for automation efforts.

  • Confirm your organization validates and execute unit tests, and automated UI Tests to identify application errors and ensure software meet functional specs.

  • Take complete ownership of build and deployment Systems And Processes, enabling Engineering teams to focus on building features quickly using automated processes.

  • Be certain that your planning maintains and extracts data from automated docket databases.

  • Manage inventory of computing and networking assets, ensuring manual, physical inventory matches inventory in various automated systems Active Directory, Asset Management system, end point protection portal, etc.

  • Maintain functional Test Cases and other test artifacts like the Test Data, Data Validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.

  • Lead Code Review, automated and Functional Testing, and other aspects of your Quality Assurance process.

  • Systematize Automated Planning: routine use of virtual technologies for testing of automated applications and issue remediation.

  • Execute manual and automated tests for various Networking Devices.

  • Be accountable for contributing to a high performing team that delivers consumable, standardized Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Services and solutions (resilient, high quality, highly automated and up to date).

  • Ensure your organization engages with cross functional teams to develop Business Requirements documentation of the process to be automated in a manner that is understood by thE Business users and can be shared with RPA Solution Design and dev teams.

  • Lead Code Review, automated and Functional Testing and other aspects of your Quality Assurance process.

  • Initiate Automated Planning: ensuring that the Software Development effort, using an iterative / Agile Methodology, focuses on Code Quality, Test Driven Development, Automated Testing and quality production deployments.

  • Guide Automated Planning: creatively implements automated processes that reduce manual efforts and increase efficiency and scalability of operational Systems And Processes.

  • Translate product requirements into exhaustive automated Test Cases and create test suites into TestRail.

  • Inform research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for System Administration tasks.

  • Ensure your organization supports the delivery of enterprise security services that support automated vulnerability scanning; manual and automated source Code Review; and Penetration Testing.

  • Ensure you address; build and manage automated performance and Capacity Management operations for the infrastructure; and perform/lead regular maintenance and resiliency activities.

  • Collaborate with Software Engineers to establish a DevOps framework for the design, development, maintenance, and execution of automated tests on platform services, solver services, and client web apps.

  • Increase coverage of Automated Testing by identifying opportunities to automate existing Test Plans and creating automated system level Test Plans.

  • Be accountable for ensuring that the Software Development effort, using an iterative / Agile Methodology, focuses on Code Quality, Test Driven Development, Automated Testing and quality production deployments.

  • Provide expertise in planning and facilitating Organizational Development initiatives.

  • Ensure you endeavor; lead Risk Assessment processes and oversee implementation of security plans and Corrective Actions in order to mitigate new and emerging Information security risks.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Are you satisfied with your current role? If not, what is missing from it?

  2. Who will be using the results of the measurement activities?

  3. What business benefits will Automated Planning goals deliver if achieved?

  4. Are task requirements clearly defined?

  5. If your company went out of business tomorrow, would anyone who doesn't get a paycheck here care?

  6. Are there any easy-to-implement alternatives to Automated Planning? Sometimes other solutions are available that do not require the cost implications of a full-blown project?

  7. What methods do you use to gather Automated Planning data?

  8. How do you keep the momentum going?

  9. What is the Automated Planning Driver?

  10. What are internal and external Automated Planning relations?


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 Automated Planning book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Automated Planning Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Automated Planning Project Team have enough people to execute the Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Automated Planning Project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning project with this in-depth Automated Planning Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning 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 Automated Planning investments work better.

This Automated Planning 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.