Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Application Modernization Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Application 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 Application Modernization specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Application 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 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Application Modernization improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:
- What are the benefits and trade-offs of adopting emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and edge computing for high-performance computing and data analytics applications during modernization?
- How do you determine the most suitable modernization approach for applications with high-performance computing and data analytics requirements, considering factors such as refactoring, re-platforming, or re-architecting?
- What are the security and compliance considerations for modernizing applications with high-performance computing and data analytics requirements, ensuring protection of sensitive data and meeting regulatory requirements?
- How do you address the potential risks and challenges associated with modernizing applications with high-performance computing and data analytics requirements, such as security, scalability, and maintainability?
- What are the primary technical debt considerations that must be addressed during modernization to ensure optimal performance and scalability for high-performance computing and data analytics workloads?
- Can AR and VR-based training and simulation environments help reduce the need for physical equipment and infrastructure, and what are the potential cost savings and benefits of this reduction?
- What are the implications of modernizing applications on existing business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and how can they be updated to reflect new architectures and technologies?
- In what ways do low-code or no-code development platforms reduce the risk of errors and bugs during the modernization process, and how do they facilitate debugging and troubleshooting?
- How do organizations ensure that knowledge management and documentation processes are scalable and adaptable to accommodate the evolving needs of application modernization initiatives?
- How do we identify the most critical data sources and streams that should be prioritized for integration with modernized applications to enable advanced analytics and AI capabilities?
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 Application Modernization book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Application 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 Application Modernization Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Application 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 Application 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 Application Modernization projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Application Modernization Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Application Modernization project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Lessons Learned: Was the change control process properly implemented to manage changes to cost, scope, schedule, or quality?
- Procurement Audit: Is authorization required to make changes to the purchase order file?
- Activity Duration Estimates: How difficult will it be to do specific activities on this Application Modernization project?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: What procedures will be utilised to ensure effective monitoring of Application Modernization project progress?
- Quality Audit: What is the collective experience of the team to be assigned to an audit?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Are changes in scope (deliverable commitments) agreed to by all affected groups & individuals?
- Project Scope Statement: How will you verify the accuracy of the work of the Application Modernization project, and what constitutes acceptance of the deliverables?
- Cost Management Plan: Are the schedule estimates reasonable given the Application Modernization project?
- Procurement Management Plan: If independent estimates will be needed as evaluation criteria, who will prepare them and when?
- Initiating Process Group: Which six sigma dmaic phase focuses on why and how defects and errors occur?
Step-by-step and complete Application Modernization Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Application Modernization project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Application 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 Application 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 Application 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 Application 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 Application 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 Application Modernization project with this in-depth Application Modernization Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Application 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 Application 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 Application Modernization investments work better.
This Application 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.
