Devise Skunk Works: review the daily and weekly shipping schedules and Production Capabilities to determine how to employ people, equipment and tooling to execute sequence and expedite daily orders.

More Uses of the Skunk Works Toolkit:


• Confirm your organization works closely with the Project Team to translate product Management Strategy, goals and directives for new products and product enhancements into clear and actionable features/User Stories for the development team.
  
  

• Assure your organization works closely with Wire Transfer Operations Management to provide workflows and processes to develop automation and/or Process Improvements.
  
  

• Ensure your organization coordinates network drops, IP addresses and monitoring tools with customers IT department personnel; works with equipment vendors to coordinate Communication Protocols, encryption, and database requirements for integration to the systems.
  
  

• Backend your team works to create delightful features, while designing and implementing useful API methods to improve the reliability of your systems.
  
  

• Proactively monitors the threat landscape and current controls to evaluate the effectiveness of the Security Tools and works with internal and External Stakeholders to implement appropriate safeguards and controls.
  
  

• Ensure your organization works closely with wider business, function and Technology Teams to approve and assign Information Technology resources to oversee projects and performance, capture existing status of budget and delivery and plan and execute on business changes across a moderate subset of your organization.
  
  

• Assure your organization works directly with business unit clients to understand specific Business Processes and Business Drivers and Business Strategy across multiplE Business units; identifies and communicates resulting needs and opportunities for Business Process Improvement that can be enabled via technology.
  
  

• Warrant that your organization works closely with the Project Team to translate product Management Strategy, goals and directives for new products and product enhancements into clear and actionable features/User Stories for the development team.
  
  

• Secure that your organization works with additional support teams to facilitate higher First Call Resolution solutions by ensuring procedural documentation is created and communicated and that appropriate access rights are established for the Service Desk.
  
  

• Confirm your organization works with various customers, prospects and stakeholders, understands and translates business use cases and/or requirements into Data Models, Data Flow Diagrams and Data Integration routines.
  
  

• Assure your organization works closely with Security Program Management to coordinate and remediate Penetration Testing, Application Testing, Vulnerability Scans, and system Configuration Management projects.
  
  

• Ready computing works with customers to develop solutions that meet the unique needs whether that involves deploying ready computing Software Applications, creating client specific applications from scratch, or implementing an application from one of your Trusted Partners.
  
  

• Secure that your organization works closely with Information Technology (IT), Engineering, Security, Loss Prevention, Safety, Facilities, Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, Vendors, General Contractors, Operations, and the Project Team.
  
  

• Arrange that your organization understands the complexities of modern IAM Systems and works to identify potential risks unique to each situation, using this information delivers appropriate solutions to prevent as many threats as possible.
  
  

• Arrange that your organization works closely with Architects/Engineers to coordinate strategies for defining, deploying, and maintaining the IP Telephony voice communication architecture and its associated network connections and component hardware.
  
  

• Make sure that your organization interacts with works managers, plant facilities engineers, operations personnel, purchasing agents and other department personnel internally and consulting engineers, contractors, other entity engineering departments and equipment and material suppliers externally.
  
  

• Make sure that your organization works with internal groups to develop strategies that cross sell, promote, and convey consistent Brand Stories and messages that are succinct across other Digital Marketing platforms.
  
  

• Assure your organization analysis, works with other Analysts to enhance Fraud Detection and Business Processes.
  
  

• Confirm your organization works directly with stakeholders to design surveys and research approaches that capture relevant and impactful feedback from customers; designs dashboards for key business areas that provide insight to drive ongoing product/service or interaction improvement.
  
  

• Establish that your organization works closely with wider business, function and Technology Teams to approve and assign Information Technology resources to oversee projects and performance, capture existing status of budget and delivery and plan and execute on business changes across a moderate subset of your organization.
  
  

• Secure that your organization works directly with contracting directors and managers to understand what is negotiated and how the negotiated agreement is translated into your organizations systems resulting in accurate and timely loading.
  
  

• Establish that your Organization Designs and/or executes unit, system and performance/stress tests and works closely with functional analysts during integration and Acceptance Testing.
  
  

• Make sure that your organization owns the overall performance (timeline, budget, and resource utilization) of large projects against plan and works through the Project Team to implement adjustments when issues/risks are identified and require resolution.
  
  

• Establish that your organization works integrally with external and internal Supply Chain, technicians, engineers and other Plant Personnel on the development of new and the analysis of material handling, storage, equipment and technology to continuously improve Material Flow.
  
  

• Make sure that your organization tracks program area problems; monitors system performance for efficiency and effectiveness; recommends policy or procedural changes in assigned program area; works with vendors, organization staff, or outside departments to optimize system performance.
  
  

• Assure your organization works with technology and Data Engineering to implement the data vision and develop the data catalogue, associated Meta Data and scalable mechanisms to develop new data attributes and analytics in partnership with Product Managers.
  
  

• Ensure your organization works closely with technology leaders, peer architects, Business Partners and other technology stakeholders to drive Business Strategy into highly scalable and cost effective platform and integration solutions.
  
  

• Confirm your organization works with third party and external IT Partners And Vendors to ensure that End User Support and Service Delivery meets the contractual and agreed upon needs of your organization for stability, uptime and Service Delivery, and works closely with partners to achieve stated goals.
  
  

• Arrange that your organization results orientation delivers long term value to stakeholders; places organization success ahead of personal gain; works to do what is best for everyone in your organization; organizes resources to accomplish Corporate Objectives.
  
  

• Dna works alongside the functions to identify and develop hybrid opportunities and to develop people and Process Capabilities across the functions and enabling areas to deliver against this strategy.
  
  

• Guide Skunk Works: partner to ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of warehouse Management Training, testing other supporting systems.
  
  


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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. Will it solve real problems?
   
   

2. Can you adapt and adjust to changing Skunk Works situations?
   
   

3. What is an unauthorized commitment?
   
   

4. Does the Skunk Works task fit the client's priorities?
   
   

5. How do your controls stack up?
   
   

6. Are the Skunk Works benefits worth its costs?
   
   

7. How do you gather the stories?
   
   

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

9. What Internal Processes need improvement?
   
   

10. How do you measure risk?
    
    


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


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


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

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Skunk Works project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Skunk Works Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works project with this in-depth Skunk Works Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works investments work better.

This Skunk Works 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.