IBM InfoSphere DataStage Toolkit

$495.00
Availability:
Downloadable Resources, Instant Access
Adding to cart… The item has been added

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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 875 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 InfoSphere DataStage improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 875 standard requirements:

  1. Will your organization work with the vendor to balance the demand over the year to prevent the surge that happens in the current program?

  2. Which job design technique can be used to give unique names to sequential output files that are used in multi instance jobs?

  3. How can businesses process tremendous amounts of raw data in an efficient and timely manner to gain actionable insights?

  4. Which db2 to InfoSphere DataStage data type conversion is correct when reading data with the db2 connector stage?

  5. What price tag would you place on the value of truly understanding the data sources of your data driven project?

  6. Will your organization accept a license to use instead of a copy of source program codes for interface programs?

  7. Will your organizations current agreement be terminated or operated in parallel with the contractors new system?

  8. Should a change in vendors take place, is your organization willing to consider a longer transition period?

  9. Does your organization stipulate an acceptable time for system response to a user request for information?

  10. Does your organization provide historical average counts of service desk contacts/interactions per month?


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 InfoSphere DataStage book in PDF containing 875 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Is there an on-going process in place to monitor IBM InfoSphere DataStage project risks?

  2. Procurement Audit: Did the conditions of contract comply with the detail provided in the procurement documents and with the outcome of the procurement procedure followed?

  3. Procurement Audit: Has your organization examined in detail the definition of performance?

  4. Cost Management Plan: Is there a requirements change management processes in place?

  5. Cost Management Plan: Vac -variance at completion, how much over/under budget do you expect to be?

  6. Variance Analysis: Budget versus actual. how does the monthly budget compare to actual experience?

  7. Schedule Management Plan: Does a documented IBM InfoSphere DataStage project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?

  8. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Will the impacts be local, national or international?

  9. Activity Duration Estimates: Is earned value analysis completed to assess IBM InfoSphere DataStage project performance?

  10. Procurement Audit: Is the foreseen budget compared with similar IBM InfoSphere DataStage projects or procurements yet realised (historical standards)?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 IBM InfoSphere DataStage project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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 InfoSphere DataStage 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 InfoSphere DataStage 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 InfoSphere DataStage 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 InfoSphere DataStage 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 InfoSphere DataStage project with this in-depth IBM InfoSphere DataStage Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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 InfoSphere DataStage 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 InfoSphere DataStage investments work better.

This IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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.