COBOL Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the COBOL 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which COBOL improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Is the compiler version, used for benchmark or similar types of computing system timing, the same version and modification described under all other features?
   
   

2. How do you deal with multiple technologies and increasing crises in terms of human skills and the skills of developers trying to embrace all of technologies?
   
   

3. What is being done about that smaller and critical group of systems programmers whose loss would be felt throughout the entire mainframe enterprise?
   
   

4. How does your organization running older, legacy systems mesh with the new technology enabling the COBOL application journey into the future?
   
   

5. Are programs available for updating the software system producing a new version of the system incorporating Latest vendor modifications?
   
   

6. Is it possible by paying a license fee to move the program to another services vendor or to bring it inside your organization?
   
   

7. What will happen to the legacy applications written in COBOL and what will organizations do with the COBOL applications?
   
   

8. Are internal compiler tables arranged so that overflow from one may be placed in the unused space reserved for another?
   
   

9. Do you provide any insight into the limitations stemming from the age of the system as well as implementation history?
   
   

10. Will your organization consider a smaller onsite contingent with additional resources providing services remotely?
    
    


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 COBOL book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your COBOL 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 COBOL Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which COBOL 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 COBOL 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 COBOL projects with the 62 implementation resources:


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Probability and Impact Assessment: Are there new risks that mitigation strategies might introduce?
   
   

2. Lessons Learned: How accurately and timely was the Risk Management Log updated or reviewed?
   
   

3. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Changes in the overhead pool and/or organization structures?
   
   

4. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Budgets assigned to major functional organizations?
   
   

5. Quality Management Plan: How does your organization manage training and evaluate its effectiveness?
   
   

6. Risk Register: What are your key risks/show istoppers and what is being done to manage them?
   
   

7. Executing Process Group: Why should COBOL project managers strive to make jobs look easy?
   
   

8. Team Directory: Who will report COBOL project status to all stakeholders?
   
   

9. Activity Duration Estimates: After changes are approved are COBOL project documents updated and distributed?
   
   

10. Schedule Management Plan: Have COBOL project team accountabilities & responsibilities been clearly defined?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 COBOL project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 COBOL project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 COBOL 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 COBOL 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 COBOL 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 COBOL 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 COBOL project with this in-depth COBOL Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose COBOL 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 COBOL 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 COBOL investments work better.

This COBOL 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.