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Fast Track Project Forms
Low cost packages filled with concepts, steps, forms and document templates for projects and planning.

Quick Tools
Free and simple planning forms.  All in PDF format.

• Top 10 Articles for Project Success Learn how to increase your odds for a successful project.

• Top 10 Articles for IT Alignment Learn how to improve relationships and align IT services with business needs.

• Top 10 Articles for Productivity Learn how to work smarter, make the most of limited resources and be more productive in your own work environment.

Download Free White Paper: IT management is part project management, part technology operations and part general management.  To achieve success, each element must be addressed. We show you how. To get started, download your own copy of our white paper - The Manage by Process Framework.

 

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Systems Management Practices and Policies

Effective systems management practices are based on a set of integrated goals, objectives, policies, and procedures to maintain and secure critical technology systems. Persistent systems outages will lead to customer dissatisfaction, and diminish IT credibility for projects and provide strategic services. Acceptable performance levels must be maintained with reliability, integrity and security.

 

Downtime: It Will Cost You

Everyone knows that downtime is costly. Everyone also knows that downtime is preventable (to a certain extent), and certainly, what cannot be prevented, can be managed and mitigated. But knowledge alone may not move anyone to act, largely because any "action" taken to minimize downtime is also costly. To play the numbers game, IT staffers must be able to quantify the costs of downtime in real business terms, moving downtime from the realm of complaints into actual "costs and consequences".

Additional Articles:

• Easy Steps for Systems Change Control
• Creating Effective Service Level Agreements
• Do More with Less: IT Management in Changing Times
• Documenting IT Policies and Procedures
• Planning the IT Operations Audit
• Setting Standards for End-user Technology
• Technical Documentation: Overhead or Obligation?
• The Basics: IT Management Policies and Procedures

 

• The Change Control Worksheet
• IT Best Practices Scorecard
• Service Objectives Scorecard
• Acceptance Criteria Worksheet

 

Disaster recovery is one of the most important issues facing any business.  Are you ready to face this challenge? 

Are you prepared to analyze current needs, plan procedures, write a plan, and keep it current?

The Disaster Recovery Plan Process Kit, from ITtoolkit.com, gives you all the tools and resources you need to meet these challenges, and much more. 

This Process Kit is packed with information, instructions, planning forms and document templates to save time and improve results.

 

The Project Status Snapshot
You don't need (or even want) lengthy, verbose documents to report on project status.  You need the right information presented in a clean, concise and consistent format.  The Project Status Snapshot is designed to do just that!  With one cost effective download, you get the secrets, solutions, and tools you need to produce and present timely status reports for all your projects, designed to inform and impress.

The Fast Track Business Case
Lengthy documents won't get your projects approved.... you need clean, polished and professional presentation tools to provide the information decision makers need and want to see, and to make the best case for your projects.  The Fast Track Business Case is designed for that purpose, providing a unique system for proposing projects - designed for the electronic preparation, submission and approval of project business case proposals.  You get the tools you need and secrets you can use to prepare winning business case proposals for any type of project.