IT Debt Self-Scorecard
A six-section scorecard to rate the IT debt building up in your estate (hardware, security, identity, network, documentation, and renewals), ready to print, score, and share.
Scorecards, checklists, decision frames, and trackers: the things we reach for when we're scoping, auditing, or planning a refresh. Free to download. Some ask for an email so we know who's using them.
A six-section scorecard to rate the IT debt building up in your estate (hardware, security, identity, network, documentation, and renewals), ready to print, score, and share.
Ten questions to check whether your team is ready to land AI tooling cleanly, or whether the pilot will stall in week three.
A short audit you can run before your sole IT person leaves. Surfaces the renewals, the credentials, and the tribal knowledge that disappear with them.
Before signing off a spec, run it past three voices (the user, the system designer, and the building), and this audit walks you through each one.
Four questions and a quick score for every meeting room, to make sure the kit gets used after the first month, not abandoned for a hotspot.
The conversation you wish you'd had with the outgoing IT manager: renewals, vendors, credentials, the lot, on one printable page.
Preview of the five-touchpoint SSL renewal checklist. The full Excel tracker is also available below.
A 90-day prep window for CE+ renewal that avoids the last-minute scramble. Week-by-week tasks, owner column, ready to print.
Four layers of email security, what each one stops, and where SMEs typically trip. A self-audit you can finish in twenty minutes.
The questions underwriters are actually asking in 2026, and the controls you need in place before the renewal lands on your desk.
A 3-5-7 year decision frame for laptops, servers, and infrastructure: the one we use to make refresh budgeting predictable.
A one-page flowchart for deciding whether to go cloud-first on Active Directory, run hybrid, or stay on-prem a little longer.
Where to run cable, where to lean on WiFi 6/7, and where the answer is both. A practical decision tree for the modern office.
When to refresh a UPS, when to add another, and when 'still works' is the wrong test, laid out as a one-page decision tree.
The Excel tracker behind the five-touchpoint checklist. Owner, expiry, renewal date, status, next-touch, ready to use.
An Excel scoping sheet for the SharePoint cleanup conversation, covering sites, owners, last-modified, decision and follow-up, ready to share with the team.
A printable poster mapping the IT year (renewals, audits, refresh cycles, key dates) designed to live above the comms cupboard.
Download ↓How small bits of unaddressed IT debt compound into the big rebuild. A visual you can share with the leadership team.
Download ↓A visual map of what a typical Microsoft 365 tenancy contains, and the bits SMEs forget exist until something breaks.
Download ↓A pocket-sized reminder of the three voices a spec needs in the room: the user, the system designer, and the building.
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