Skunk Works A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
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Do you know what you are doing? And who do you call if you don't? How will you measure your QA plan's effectiveness? What is in the scope and what is not in scope? Is there a strict change management process? What does losing customers cost your organization?
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you are 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?'
This Self-Assessment 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 Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.
All the tools you need to an in-depth Skunk Works Self-Assessment. Featuring 955 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.
In using the questions 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 process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Skunk Works Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Skunk Works areas need attention.
Your purchase includes access details to the Skunk Works self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. 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 Skunk Works Checklists
- Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
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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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Skunk Works A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
Skunk Works
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Skunk Works 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
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Copyright © by The Art of Service
http://theartofservice.com
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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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works, 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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works, 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 Skunk Works 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 Skunk Works Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Skunk Works Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Skunk Works areas need attention.
Skunk Works
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
Skunk Works
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
Skunk Works
Scorecard Example12
Skunk Works
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:100
Skunk Works and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:125
1.0 Initiating Process Group: Skunk Works126
1.1 Project Charter: Skunk Works128
1.2 Stakeholder Register: Skunk Works130
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Skunk Works131
2.0 Planning Process Group: Skunk Works133
2.1 Project Management Plan: Skunk Works135
2.2 Scope Management Plan: Skunk Works137
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Skunk Works139
2.4 Requirements Documentation: Skunk Works141
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Skunk Works143
2.6 Project Scope Statement: Skunk Works145
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Skunk Works147
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Skunk Works149
2.9 WBS Dictionary: Skunk Works151
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Skunk Works153
2.11 Activity List: Skunk Works155
2.12 Activity Attributes: Skunk Works157
2.13 Milestone List: Skunk Works159
2.14 Network Diagram: Skunk Works161
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Skunk Works163
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Skunk Works165
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Skunk Works167
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Skunk Works169
2.19 Project Schedule: Skunk Works171
2.20 Cost Management Plan: Skunk Works173
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: Skunk Works175
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: Skunk Works177
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