IBM i Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IBM i 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 991 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 improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. How do you use the IBM Smart Analytics System Control Console to determine if the software and firmware levels on the system are correct?
   
   

2. Do you want all users who install applications by using the modified installation image to use a specified administration system?
   
   

3. What are the methods available to you to upgrade your system to the latest release/maintenance level yet minimize the downtime?
   
   

4. What would prohibit the system administrator from establishing a mirrored copy between the internal and external disk drives?
   
   

5. How would an administrator verify that the system has all required prerequisite fixes prior to installing a software fix?
   
   

6. What setting should the administrator configure to ensure accurate advice for the specific configuration of the system?
   
   

7. Do you use the control console to selectively apply certain updates within an IBM Smart Analytics System fix pack?
   
   

8. What is the extent of the competition or the nature of the relationship between IBM and the other organization?
   
   

9. Which actions should be performed first to migrate the data from the failing drive to the unallocated drive?
   
   

10. What configuration should your organization purchase to fix current problems and plan for future expansion?
    
    


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 book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Risk Management Plan: My IBM i project leader has suddenly left your organization, what do you do?
   
   

2. Scope Management Plan: Are target dates established for each milestone deliverable?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Were stakeholders aware and supportive of the principles and practices of modern cost estimation?
   
   

4. Roles and Responsibilities: Be specific; avoid generalities. Thank you and great work alone are insufficient. What exactly do you appreciate and why?
   
   

5. Initiating Process Group: The IBM i project managers have maximum authority in which type of organization?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Are performance reviews conducted regularly to assess the status of IBM i projects?
   
   

7. Cost Baseline: Should a more thorough impact analysis be conducted?
   
   

8. Human Resource Management Plan: Are updated IBM i project time & resource estimates reasonable based on the current IBM i project stage?
   
   

9. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree is there a sense that only the team can succeed?
   
   

10. Project Management Plan: What happened during the process that you found interesting?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IBM i project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IBM i 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 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 investments work better.

This IBM i 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.