Lead the configuration Management Process to develop an aligned Data Model and implement tools and processes to ensure that accurate and reliable information about the best buy Configuration Items is captured and maintained in the Configuration Management database.

More Uses of the Configuration Item Toolkit:


• Manage work with support and infrastructure teams to rectify any Configuration Item discrepancies.
  
  

• Establish that your corporation identifies Configuration Items, implements Change Control, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits.
  
  

• Pilot: manual creation and manipulation of server Configuration Items, End Users, groups and generic accounts.
  
  

• Establish that your strategy provides configuration Management Support in accordance with compliance and Policies and Procedures, using configuration Management Systems to record, track, monitor, and update component configurations and Configuration Items and changes and account for assets.
  
  

• Govern: account for, record, report, audit, and verify IT assets and Configuration Items.
  
  

• Perform Quality Assurance of Configuration Item deliverables received and distributed.
  
  

• Warrant that your strategy complies; implements configuration Management Processes using enabling technology for control, Change Control, and release of Configuration Items.
  
  

• Establish: complete internal testing of new build and Configuration Items; Lead system and user Acceptance Testing efforts.
  
  

• Orchestrate: management of compliance settings by creating and importing Configuration Items.
  
  

• Be certain that your planning supports acquisition, development, production and sustainment programs by planning, coordinating, and reviewing Configuration Items and managing/coordinating data deliverables.
  
  

• Identify, develop Configuration Item baselines.
  
  

• Develop: monitor and audit configuration changes to hardware and software to confirm that Configuration Management records and Configuration Items are complete, consistent, accurate, and ensure compliance with approved configuration baseline.
  
  

• Ensure accuracy of Configuration Item and Configuration Management information and data regarding governance, standards, and other IT Service Management related processes.
  
  

• Supervise: report, coordinate and resolve hardware Configuration Item data discrepancies in Configuration Management database.
  
  

• Ensure your group updates database and tracks location of Configuration Items.
  
  

• Manage and track relationships between Configuration Items.
  
  

• Authorize the release of approved software Configuration Items and software configuration changes specified by management and other functional groups.
  
  

• Align Configuration Item information with program performance measurements to organize and simplify Performance Management reporting.
  
  

• Confirm your organization ensures the proper baseline identification of Configuration Items, perform periodic audits, and provide verification of version release Configuration Items.
  
  


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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. How long will it take to change?
   
   

2. Which needs are not included or involved?
   
   

3. Think of your Configuration Item project, what are the main functions?
   
   

4. What gets examined?
   
   

5. How is Configuration Item data gathered?
   
   

6. What are the requirements for audit information?
   
   

7. Do you have an implicit bias for capital investments over people investments?
   
   

8. Where do you need Configuration Item improvement?
   
   

9. What is the big Configuration Item idea?
   
   

10. What is out of scope?
    
    


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 Configuration Item book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Configuration Item project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Configuration Item Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item project with this in-depth Configuration Item Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item 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 Configuration Item investments work better.

This Configuration Item 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.