Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical IBM i System Administration Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any IBM i System Administration 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 i System Administration specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the IBM i System Administration 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 990 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 i System Administration improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:
- How do you go about assessing the usefulness, performance and impact of the different types of human rights monitoring systems that may be used in the trade context?
- Are its project managers using the local its architecture when defining services, data exchanges and standards used to mitigate its asset future proofing risks?
- How does a potential provider back up your data to guard against corruption or other threats to data integrity and business continuity?
- Which metrics would you use to measure before and after performance regarding the information technologies implemented in this case?
- Are there records describing the names of authorized personnel, the titles, and a description of the access privileges to the data?
- Are superseded versions of software packages and site licenses that have been upgraded deleted from inventory by abandonment?
- Are subcontractors evaluated and selected based on the ability to meet quality system and quality assurance requirements?
- Is a relational database purpose built for a normalized schema and to enforce referential integrity in the database?
- Is there a link between satisfaction with channels and how much organizations invest in communication technology?
- Are communities informed or involved in the design and development of policies related to the security/ safety?
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 i System Administration book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your IBM i System Administration 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 i System Administration Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which IBM i System Administration 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 i System Administration 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 i System Administration projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step IBM i System Administration Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 IBM i System Administration project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Executing Process Group: What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on the next IBM i System Administration project?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: Workarounds are determined during which step of risk management?
- Activity List: The wbs is developed as part of a joint planning session. and how do you know that youhave done this right?
- Risk Audit: What is the implication of budget constraint on this process?
- Requirements Traceability Matrix: Describe the process for approving requirements so they can be added to the traceability matrix and IBM i System Administration project work can be performed. Will the IBM i System Administration project requirements become approved in writing?
- Planning Process Group: Are the follow-up indicators relevant and do they meet the quality needed to measure the outputs and outcomes of the IBM i System Administration project?
- Planning Process Group: To what extent is the program helping to influence your organizations policy framework?
- Procurement Audit: Are rules in automatic disbursement programs adequate to prevent duplicate payment of invoices?
- Change Management Plan: Will the readiness criteria be met prior to the training roll out?
- WBS Dictionary: All cwbs elements specified for external reporting?
Step-by-step and complete IBM i System Administration Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 IBM i System Administration project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 IBM i System Administration 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 i System Administration 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 i System Administration 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 i System Administration 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 i System Administration 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 i System Administration project with this in-depth IBM i System Administration Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose IBM i System Administration 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 i System Administration 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 i System Administration investments work better.
This IBM i System Administration 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.
