Systems Assurance A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition. Gerardus Blokdyk
What is the context?
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125. What defines best in class?
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126. Has your scope been defined?
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127. In what way can you redefine the criteria of choice clients have in your category in your favor?
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128. Are roles and responsibilities formally defined?
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129. Do the problem and goal statements meet the SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound)?
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130. What customer feedback methods were used to solicit their input?
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131. Is Systems assurance currently on schedule according to the plan?
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132. Are approval levels defined for contracts and supplements to contracts?
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133. What sort of initial information to gather?
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134. Have the customer needs been translated into specific, measurable requirements? How?
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135. What is out of scope?
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136. Scope of sensitive information?
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137. What is the scope of the Systems assurance effort?
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138. Has everyone on the team, including the team leaders, been properly trained?
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139. Has a project plan, Gantt chart, or similar been developed/completed?
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140. What is the scope of the Systems assurance work?
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141. What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Systems assurance brings?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score for this section
Transfer your score to the Systems assurance Index at the beginning of the Self-Assessment.
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:
INTENT: Gather the correct data. Measure the current performance and evolution of the situation.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
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3 Neutral
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1 Strongly Disagree
1. How can a Systems assurance test verify your ideas or assumptions?
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2. How do you prevent mis-estimating cost?
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3. Has a cost center been established?
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4. What are the operational costs after Systems assurance deployment?
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5. How are measurements made?
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6. What drives O&M cost?
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7. Are the measurements objective?
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8. How do your measurements capture actionable Systems assurance information for use in exceeding your customers expectations and securing your customers engagement?
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9. What causes extra work or rework?
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10. Do you aggressively reward and promote the people who have the biggest impact on creating excellent Systems assurance services/products?
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11. What are the uncertainties surrounding estimates of impact?
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12. What are the types and number of measures to use?
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13. How will effects be measured?
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14. What are the current costs of the Systems assurance process?
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15. How will your organization measure success?
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16. How will costs be allocated?
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17. Do you have a flow diagram of what happens?
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18. What relevant entities could be measured?
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19. What do people want to verify?
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20. How can you manage cost down?
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21. Among the Systems assurance product and service cost to be estimated, which is considered hardest to estimate?
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22. Are you taking your company in the direction of better and revenue or cheaper and cost?
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23. How can you measure Systems assurance in a systematic way?
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24. How do you verify and validate the Systems assurance data?
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25. Where is the cost?
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26. How is progress measured?
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27. Are the units of measure consistent?
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28. What is the total cost related to deploying Systems assurance, including any consulting or professional services?
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29. What does verifying compliance entail?
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30. What is the root cause(s) of the problem?
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31. What is an unallowable cost?
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32. How frequently do you verify your Systems assurance strategy?
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33. What are your primary costs, revenues, assets?
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34. How can you reduce the costs of obtaining inputs?
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35. What is the cause of any Systems assurance gaps?
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36. When should you bother with diagrams?
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