Mainframe Modernization Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Mainframe Modernization Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Mainframe Modernization related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Mainframe Modernization specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Mainframe Modernization Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Mainframe Modernization improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:

  1. Why do other organizations that modernize instead of re platform report paying less on hardware, software, and staffing, while reporting higher end user satisfaction?

  2. How should the investments made by organizations and individuals in learning to utilize a new technology be treated for national income accounting purposes?

  3. How will the platform and tools integrate with the legacy solution to continue business operations during the transitional modernization period?

  4. Is the mainframe an anomaly in the modern world of digital transformation or is it truly the workhorse that simply keeps on delivering?

  5. How many test environments do you have currently across all the Modernization Programs and what is the code promotion process in place?

  6. Can your dev teams leverage mainframe applications and resources to empower mobile and web development, integration or modernization?

  7. What percentage of respondents agreed that modernization activity is a key part of improving organizations carbon footprint?

  8. What is the true cost of maintaining your existing mainframe in terms of purchase, install, cooling, power and support?

  9. How is existing functionality within legacy mainframe systems to be re engineered or wrapped into reusable services?

  10. Will modernization make it easier to reuse the applications capabilities and to integrate it with other systems?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Mainframe Modernization book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Mainframe Modernization self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Mainframe Modernization Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Mainframe Modernization areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Mainframe Modernization Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Mainframe Modernization projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Mainframe Modernization Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Mainframe Modernization project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Schedule Management Plan: Have the key elements of a coherent Mainframe Modernization project management strategy been established?

  2. Risk Management Plan: What are the cost, schedule and resource impacts if the risk does occur?

  3. Activity Attributes: Have constraints been applied to the start and finish milestones for the phases?

  4. Probability and Impact Assessment: Risk data quality assessment - what is the quality of the data used to determine or assess the risk?

  5. Cost Management Plan: Is Mainframe Modernization project work proceeding in accordance with the original Mainframe Modernization project schedule?

  6. Project Portfolio management: Why would the work force want to know the force rank order of the portfolio?

  7. Project Charter: Major high-level milestone targets: what events measure progress?

  8. Procurement Audit: Are criteria and sub-criteria set suitable to identify the tender that offers best value for money?

  9. Team Member Performance Assessment: Verify business objectives. Are they appropriate, and well-articulated?

  10. Lessons Learned: How effective were the techniques used to prepare you and your organization for the impact of the changes brought about by the product or service produced by the Mainframe Modernization project?

 
Step-by-step and complete Mainframe Modernization Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Mainframe Modernization project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Mainframe Modernization project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Mainframe Modernization project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Mainframe Modernization project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Mainframe Modernization project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Mainframe Modernization project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Mainframe Modernization project with this in-depth Mainframe Modernization Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Mainframe Modernization projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Mainframe Modernization and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, 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?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Mainframe Modernization investments work better.

This Mainframe Modernization All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime 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.