IBM COBOL Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IBM 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 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IBM COBOL improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:


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

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

3. What option can be coded on the RETURN command to associate a transaction identifier with the next terminal input?
   
   

4. What rational products can be used together to provide a comprehensive application portfolio management solution?
   
   

5. What is the option specified in the read operation to gain multiple concurrent operations on the same dataset?
   
   

6. Does it make sense to continue working with COBOL, DB2, CICS, or should you try to switch to other technology?
   
   

7. What are the optional parameters to the input dataset While loading the empty cluster with the data records?
   
   

8. What offering should clients consider using to understand Enterprise Architecture and application portfolio?
   
   

9. What is the process of converting the CICS commands into the equivalent host language statements called?
   
   

10. What type of abend is issued by the system if a receive map is executed when no map has been displayed?
    
    


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 IBM COBOL book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Quality Audit: What does the organizarion look for in a Quality audit?
   
   

2. Activity Duration Estimates: Which frame seemed to be the most important and why?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Are target dates established for each milestone deliverable?
   
   

4. Cost Management Plan: Is there any form of automated support for Issues Management?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Does a documented IBM COBOL project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?
   
   

6. Risk Register: How could corresponding Risk affect the IBM COBOL project in terms of cost and schedule?
   
   

7. Activity Attributes: How difficult will it be to complete specific activities on this IBM COBOL project?
   
   

8. Activity Duration Estimates: IBM COBOL project manager has received activity duration estimates from his team. Which does one need in order to complete schedule development?
   
   

9. Cost Management Plan: Is there a formal set of procedures supporting Issues Management?
   
   

10. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Does the contractors system include procedures for measuring the performance of critical subcontractors?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IBM COBOL project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IBM 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 IBM 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 IBM 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 IBM 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 IBM 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 IBM COBOL project with this in-depth IBM COBOL Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IBM 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 IBM 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 IBM COBOL investments work better.

This IBM 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.