IT Governance Toolkit: best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics

"I work with really great people, I mean really. I make recommendations to division management regarding policy, strategic, IT governance, information system control, and operational IT issues. The job needs experience in IT / IS laws and regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as well as governance and compliance frameworks. I identify gaps in governance processes and develop innovative ways to address them as I lead governance meetings. I oversee all key IT vendor relationships and consultants that support IT operations, projects and activities. I work hard."

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

• The latest quick edition of the IT Governance 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 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IT Governance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:

1. While it seems technically very likely that smart contracts can be programmed to execute the lifecycle events of a financial asset, and that those assets can be legally enshrined in computer code as a smart asset, how are they governed by law?
   
   
2. Does your organization have any software product that has a tuning process i.e. when one part changes or has new components added or a different vendor adds something to it, all parts are evaluated?
   
   
3. Policy compliance is closely related to IT governance. Compliance has much to do with defining, controlling and governing security efforts. How does your organization respond to security events?
   
   
4. The highest standard. It requires the development of a culture where healthcare professionals are motivated to routinely think: are you doing it right? Is this your organizations culture?
   
   
5. Primary alignment - is the initiative key to achieving the theme or objective (i.e.: if the initiative does not go ahead, the theme or objective is at great risk of not being achieved)?
   
   
6. Have the major, foreseeable potential threats (i.e.: anything that hinders governments ability to successfully deliver the project and achieve the project objectives) been identified?
   
   
7. Improve information for decision making (e.g.: provide the ability to report on certain statistics or outcomes that could not previously be reported; perform more in-depth analysis)?
   
   
8. How does your sector leverage the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, or other frameworks, as a standard to measure itself, as well as to design and implement risk management practices?
   
   
9. Does the business case rest on a detailed gap analysis which validates the opportunity to improve business accomplishments or correct a deficiency related to a business need?
   
   
10. Does your organization have an IT Strategy or Steering Group which carries the overall accountability for setting governance, direction, policy and strategy for IT Services?
    
    

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 IT Governance book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

1. Risk Register: Technology risk -is the IT Governance project technically feasible?
   
   
2. Procurement Management Plan: In which phase of the Acquisition Process Cycle does source qualifications reside?
   
   
3. Project Scope Statement: Was planning completed before the IT Governance project was initiated?
   
   
4. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree will new and supplemental skills be introduced as the need is recognized?
   
   
5. WBS Dictionary: Identify potential or actual budget-based and time-based schedule variances?
   
   
6. Planning Process Group: How well did the chosen processes fit the needs of the IT Governance project?
   
   
7. Risk Management Plan: What is the likelihood that your organization would accept responsibility for the risk?
   
   
8. Planning Process Group: Explanation: is what the IT Governance project intents to solve a hard question?
   
   
9. Lessons Learned: How effectively were issues managed on the IT Governance project?
   
   
10. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree are the teams goals and objectives clear, simple, and measurable?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

• 1.1 IT Governance project Charter
• 1.2 Stakeholder Register
• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix

2.0 Planning Process Group:

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

• Diagnose IT Governance 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 IT Governance 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 IT Governance investments work better.

This IT Governance 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.