Mental Models Second Edition
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Is the impact that Mental Models has shown? How can skill-level changes improve Mental Models? Risk factors: what are the characteristics of Mental Models that make it risky? How does the Mental Models manager ensure against scope creep? Are assumptions made in Mental Models stated explicitly?
This instant Mental Models self-assessment will make you the accepted Mental Models domain adviser by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Mental Models challenge.
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There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Mental Models essentials are covered, from every angle: the Mental Models self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Mental Models outcomes are achieved.
Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Mental Models practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Mental Models are maximized with professional results.
Your purchase includes access details to the Mental Models self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
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- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
…plus an extra, special, resource that helps you with project managing.
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Mental Models Second Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
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:
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Acknowledgments
This checklist was developed under the auspices of The Art of Service, chaired by Gerardus Blokdyk.
Representatives from several client companies participated in the preparation of this Self-Assessment.
Our deepest gratitude goes out to Matt Champagne, Ph.D. Surveys Expert, for his invaluable help and advise in structuring the Self Assessment.
In addition, we are thankful for the design and printing services provided.
Included Resources - how to access
Included with your purchase of the book is the Mental Models 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 Mental Models 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
•…plus an extra, special, resource that helps you with project managing.
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.
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Mental Models, 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 Mental Models 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 Mental Models, 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 Mental Models 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 Mental Models Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Mental Models Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Mental Models areas need attention.
Mental Models
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
Mental Models
Scorecard
Your Scores:
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Table of Contents
About The Art of Service7
Acknowledgments8
Included Resources - how to access8
Your feedback is invaluable to us10
Purpose of this Self-Assessment10
How to use the Self-Assessment11
Mental Models
Scorecard Example13
Mental Models
Scorecard14
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:15
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE16
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:23
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:34
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:47
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:55
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:67
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:78
Mental Models and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:103
1.0 Initiating Process Group: Mental Models104
1.1 Project Charter: Mental Models106
1.2 Stakeholder Register: Mental Models108
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Mental Models109
2.0 Planning Process Group: Mental Models111
2.1 Project Management Plan: Mental Models113
2.2 Scope Management Plan: Mental Models115
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Mental Models117
2.4 Requirements Documentation: Mental Models119
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Mental Models121
2.6 Project Scope Statement: Mental Models123
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Mental Models125
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Mental Models127
2.9 WBS Dictionary: Mental Models129
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Mental Models132
2.11 Activity List: Mental Models134
2.12 Activity Attributes: Mental Models136
2.13 Milestone List: Mental Models138
2.14 Network Diagram: Mental Models140
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Mental Models142
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Mental Models144
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Mental Models146
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Mental Models148
2.19 Project Schedule: Mental Models150
2.20 Cost Management Plan: Mental