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    Design Support A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
    Design Support A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
    Design Support A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
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    Design Support A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

    By Gerardus Blokdyk

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    What network design supports the application? Does the design support core technologies and allow them to be used to best advantage? How well does the physical design support the definition of the desired or accepted behaviours? How does service design support and understand appropriation in service provision and use? How well does the physical design support the desired or accepted behaviors?

    This instant Design Support self-assessment will make you the entrusted Design Support domain assessor by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Design Support challenge.

    How do I reduce the effort in the Design Support work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Design Support task and that every Design Support outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Design Support costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Design Support advice instantly with structured going-forward plans?

    There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Design Support essentials are covered, from every angle: the Design Support self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Design Support outcomes are achieved.

    Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Design Support practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Design Support are maximized with professional results.

    Your purchase includes access details to the Design Support self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:

    - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF

    - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

    - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard

    - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

    - In-depth and specific Design Support Checklists

    - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation

    INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher5STARCooks
    Release dateOct 23, 2019
    ISBN9780655993506
    Design Support A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

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      Design Support A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk

      Design Support

      Complete Self-Assessment Guide

      The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Design Support best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management. The guidance is also based on the professional judgment of the individual collaborators listed in the Acknowledgments.

      Notice of rights

      You are licensed to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for internal use and customers without asking us - we are here to help.

      All rights reserved for the book itself: this book may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      The information in this book is distributed on an As Is basis without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of he book, neither the author nor the publisher shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the products described in it.

      Trademarks

      Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and the publisher was aware of a trademark claim, the designations appear as requested by the owner of the trademark. All other product names and services identified throughout this book are used in editorial fashion only and for the benefit of such companies with no intention of infringement of the trademark. No such use, or the use of any trade name, is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book.

      Copyright © by The Art of Service

      http://theartofservice.com

      service@theartofservice.com

      About The Art of Service

      The Art of Service, Business Process Architects since 2000, is dedicated to helping stakeholders achieve excellence.

      Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a stakeholders challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.

      Unless you’re talking a one-time, single-use project, 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?’

      With The Art of Service’s Standard Requirements Self-Assessments, we empower people who can do just that — whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, Business Process Manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CIO etc... —they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better.

      Contact us when you need any support with this Self-Assessment and any help with templates, blue-prints and examples of standard documents you might need:

      http://theartofservice.com

      service@theartofservice.com

      Included Resources - how to access

      Included with your purchase of the book is the Design Support Self-Assessment Spreadsheet Dashboard which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas and auto-generates insights, graphs, and project RACI planning - all with examples to get you started right away.

      How? Simply send an email to

      access@theartofservice.com

      with this books’ title in the subject to get the Design Support Self Assessment Tool right away.

      You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:

      •The latest quick edition of the book in PDF

      •The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

      •The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...

      •Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

      •In-depth specific Checklists covering the topic

      •Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation

      INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT 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.

      Get it now- you will be glad you did - do it now, before you forget.

      Send an email to access@theartofservice.com with this books’ title in the subject to get the Design Support Self Assessment Tool right away.

      Purpose of this Self-Assessment

      This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Design Support, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.

      It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.

      The criteria of requirements and elements of Design Support have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.

      In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Design Support, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.

      How to use the Self-Assessment

      On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Design Support initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.

      To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.

      1 Strongly Disagree

      2 Disagree

      3 Neutral

      4 Agree

      5 Strongly Agree

      Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:

      ‘In my belief,

      the answer to this question is clearly defined’.

      There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;

      1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined

      2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.

      A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.

      After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Design Support Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.

      Your completed Design Support Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Design Support areas need attention.

      Design Support

      Scorecard Example

      Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:

      Design Support

      Scorecard

      Your Scores:

      BEGINNING OF THE

      SELF-ASSESSMENT:

      Table of Contents

      About The Art of Service7

      Included Resources - how to access7

      Purpose of this Self-Assessment9

      How to use the Self-Assessment10

      Design Support

      Scorecard Example12

      Design Support

      Scorecard13

      BEGINNING OF THE

      SELF-ASSESSMENT:14

      CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE15

      CRITERION #2: DEFINE:26

      CRITERION #3: MEASURE:41

      CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:55

      CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:71

      CRITERION #6: CONTROL:87

      CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:100

      Design Support and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:124

      1.0 Initiating Process Group: Design Support125

      1.1 Project Charter: Design Support127

      1.2 Stakeholder Register: Design Support129

      1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Design Support130

      2.0 Planning Process Group: Design Support132

      2.1 Project Management Plan: Design Support134

      2.2 Scope Management Plan: Design Support136

      2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Design Support138

      2.4 Requirements Documentation: Design Support140

      2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Design Support142

      2.6 Project Scope Statement: Design Support144

      2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Design Support146

      2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Design Support148

      2.9 WBS Dictionary: Design Support150

      2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Design Support153

      2.11 Activity List: Design Support155

      2.12 Activity Attributes: Design Support157

      2.13 Milestone List: Design Support159

      2.14 Network Diagram: Design Support161

      2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Design Support163

      2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Design Support164

      2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Design Support166

      2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Design Support169

      2.19 Project Schedule: Design Support171

      2.20 Cost Management Plan: Design Support173

      2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: Design Support175

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