NFV Toolkit

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Network Automation; network orchestration; network programmability; network as code; zero touch provisioning (ZTP); SDN controllers; Capacity Management systems; network functions virtualization (NFV); Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

More Uses of the NFV Toolkit:

  • Be knowledgeable on virtualization, SDN and NFV concepts and related technologies.

  • Ensure you meet; understand ses network systems to support end to end Customer Service applications.

  • Provide innovative advice upon forthcoming product developments or services that could lead to new sales and/or to service optimizations.

  • Collaborate with Channel Marketing on effectively scaling reach to partner customers.

  • Be a part of cutting edge, Open Source innovation.

  • Ensure you mastermind; recommend to customers new technologies being developed for use with the SES Network system which can better serve needs and increase SES Network share of wallet.

  • Formulate: Data Center networking, virtualization, NFV and SDN.

  • Audit: network function virtualization (NFV) solutions.

  • Drive: how closed loop automation advances Network Automation.

  • Warrant that your enterprise understands Sales Processes and relationships.

  • Ensure you have always wanted to work on a dynamic team that is inspiring change across the industry.

  • Collaborate with Product Management on new product initiatives and enhancements to verify integration with current systems.

  • Govern: technology technology infrastructure and security occupations.

  • Be able to creatively solve a problem with incomplete data (infer context).

  • Lead the design, implementation, and support of Network Automation and orchestration solutions.

  • Ensure you execute; lead Distributed Systems, Software Development practices, Application Architecture, and DevOps philosophies.

  • Ensure you convey; lead Systems Management/administration automation in Python.

  • Drive professional service solution and sales.

  • Systematize: rapidly troubleshoot network outages through the application of Network Analysis fundamentals and troubleshooting skills.

  • Arrange that your enterprise breaks complex problems into smaller ones without losing context.

  • Develop and support SDN (Software Defined Network) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization).

  • Supervise: supportive of a team of talented individual contributors.

  • Manage work with marketing Content and Programs, Brand Management, Digital Marketing and Segment teams to ensure cross functional alignment and marketing effectiveness.

  • Evaluate: network function virtualization (NFV).

  • Maintain a long term relationship with customer and drive add on sales in post sale stages.

  • Pilot: SDN/NFV Platform Architecture and development.

  • Standardize: prospect pre qualification with direct interface with customers/ prospects engineers, and Business Development staff.

  • Secure that your business complies; Presales Solution Architecture openstack.

  • Devise: adaptable to different levels of technical sales knowledge by account executives.

  • Guide: work closely with finance, engineering, and other departments to ensure the profitability of all project design.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

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

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What is effective NFV?

  2. What are the key elements of your NFV Performance Improvement system, including your evaluation, organizational learning, and innovation processes?

  3. How do you measure risk?

  4. What are the usability implications of NFV actions?

  5. How is Change Control managed?

  6. What is the risk?

  7. How can you improve performance?

  8. Against what alternative is success being measured?

  9. Have design-to-cost goals been established?

  10. How important is NFV to the user organizations mission?


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

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

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

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose NFV 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 NFV 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 NFV investments work better.

This NFV 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.