IPO Readiness A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
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IPO Readiness A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
IPO Readiness
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on IPO Readiness 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.
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Included with your purchase of the book is the IPO Readiness 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
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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.
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of IPO Readiness, 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 IPO Readiness 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 IPO Readiness, 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 IPO Readiness 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 IPO Readiness Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed IPO Readiness Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which IPO Readiness areas need attention.
IPO Readiness
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
IPO Readiness
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
IPO Readiness
Scorecard Example12
IPO Readiness
Scorecard13
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:14
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE15
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:26
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:42
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:56
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:72
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:88
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:101
IPO Readiness and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:126
1.0 Initiating Process Group: IPO Readiness127
1.1 Project Charter: IPO Readiness129
1.2 Stakeholder Register: IPO Readiness131
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: IPO Readiness132
2.0 Planning Process Group: IPO Readiness134
2.1 Project Management Plan: IPO Readiness136
2.2 Scope Management Plan: IPO Readiness138
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: IPO Readiness140
2.4 Requirements Documentation: IPO Readiness142
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: IPO Readiness144
2.6 Project Scope Statement: IPO Readiness146
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: IPO Readiness149
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: IPO Readiness151
2.9 WBS Dictionary: IPO Readiness153
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: IPO Readiness156
2.11 Activity List: IPO Readiness158
2.12 Activity Attributes: IPO Readiness160
2.13 Milestone List: IPO Readiness162
2.14 Network Diagram: IPO Readiness164
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: IPO Readiness166
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: IPO Readiness168
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: IPO Readiness170
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: IPO Readiness172
2.19 Project Schedule: IPO Readiness174
2.20 Cost Management Plan: IPO Readiness176
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: IPO Readiness178
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: IPO Readiness180
2.23 Cost Baseline: IPO Readiness182
2.24 Quality Management Plan: IPO Readiness184
2.25 Quality Metrics: IPO Readiness186
2.26 Process Improvement Plan: IPO Readiness188
2.27 Responsibility