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120. How does the Controls and Data Services manager ensure against scope creep?
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121. Is it clearly defined in and to your organization what you do?
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122. What happens if Controls and Data Services’s scope changes?
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123. What scope to assess?
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124. What are the Controls and Data Services use cases?
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125. Are audit criteria, scope, frequency and methods defined?
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126. What are the record-keeping requirements of Controls and Data Services activities?
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127. Is there regularly 100% attendance at the team meetings? If not, have appointed substitutes attended to preserve cross-functionality and full representation?
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128. Has your scope been defined?
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129. What Controls and Data Services requirements should be gathered?
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130. Is there any additional Controls and Data Services definition of success?
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131. What knowledge or experience is required?
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132. What Controls and Data Services services do you require?
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133. What is out-of-scope initially?
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134. Is scope creep really all bad news?
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135. What are the compelling stakeholder reasons for embarking on Controls and Data Services?
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136. Is Controls and Data Services currently on schedule according to the plan?
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137. What is the scope of the Controls and Data Services work?
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138. Are required metrics defined, what are they?
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139. What sources do you use to gather information for a Controls and Data Services study?
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140. What constraints exist that might impact the team?
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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 Controls and Data Services 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
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. How is the value delivered by Controls and Data Services being measured?
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2. Do the benefits outweigh the costs?
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3. What users will be impacted?
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4. How do you measure lifecycle phases?
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5. What are your primary costs, revenues, assets?
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6. How do you quantify and qualify impacts?
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7. How do you verify and develop ideas and innovations?
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8. How do you verify if Controls and Data Services is built right?
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9. What are the strategic priorities for this year?
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10. What are hidden Controls and Data Services quality costs?
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11. Are you able to realize any cost savings?
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12. Does the Controls and Data Services task fit the client’s priorities?
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13. Which measures and indicators matter?
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14. What are the estimated costs of proposed changes?
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15. Have you included everything in your Controls and Data Services cost models?
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16. What do people want to verify?
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17. At what cost?
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18. How will you measure your Controls and Data Services effectiveness?
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19. What is measured? Why?
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20. Do you have any cost Controls and Data Services limitation requirements?
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21. Do you aggressively reward and promote the people who have the biggest impact on creating excellent Controls and Data Services services/products?
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22. What are the costs of reform?
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23. Who should receive measurement reports?
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24. What evidence is there and what is measured?
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25. Was a business case (cost/benefit) developed?
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26. What could cause delays in the schedule?
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27. How do you control the overall costs of your work processes?
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28. Why do you expend time and effort to implement measurement, for whom?
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29. What could cause you to change course?
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30. Which costs should be taken into account?
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31. What causes mismanagement?
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32. How are costs allocated?
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