IBM MQ Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:


1. In a distributed transaction involving multiple IBM MQ queues or queue managers, how does the choice between single-phase commit and two-phase commit impact the coordination and synchronization of commit operations across all participating resources, and what are the potential consequences of encountering a failure during this process?
   
   

2. How does IBM MQ's support for containerization and cloud-native technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, enable the deployment of scalable and load-balanced queue managers in cloud and hybrid cloud environments, and what are the benefits of using these technologies in terms of resource utilization and application portability?
   
   

3. How does IBM MQ's support for APIs and developer tools enable the development of custom applications and integrations that leverage message workflow and business process management capabilities, and what benefits does this provide in terms of accelerating the development of new business processes and improving time-to-market?
   
   

4. How do the implications of single-phase commit versus two-phase commit change when using IBM MQ in conjunction with other transactional resources, such as databases or JMS providers, and what are the key considerations for ensuring consistent transactional behavior across these heterogeneous environments?
   
   

5. How would you troubleshoot an issue with an IBM MQ bridge, including verifying the bridge's configuration, examining the bridge's error logs, and checking the bridge's connection to the target queue manager, and what steps would you take to resolve issues such as message buffering or channel disconnects?
   
   

6. How does IBM MQ's built-in load balancing capability, which allows multiple queue managers to be grouped together into a single cluster, enable the distribution of message workload across multiple resources, and what are the implications of this approach on overall system performance and reliability?
   
   

7. What are the implications of using IBM MQ's load balancing and scalability features on message ordering and consistency, and how do these features ensure that messages are delivered in the correct order and without duplication or loss, even in the event of a queue manager failure or network outage?
   
   

8. What are the primary differences in terms of reliability and fault tolerance between using a single-phase commit and a two-phase commit when processing transactions in an IBM MQ environment, and how do these differences impact the overall design and implementation of a messaging-based application?
   
   

9. What are the common deployment scenarios and use cases for IBM MQ HA configurations, such as supporting mission-critical business applications, ensuring continuous availability for APIs and microservices, and providing a highly available messaging infrastructure for IoT and big data workloads?
   
   

10. Can IBM MQ's clustering feature be used in conjunction with other high-availability technologies, such as IBM Power Systems clustering or third-party clustering solutions, to provide an even more resilient messaging infrastructure, and what are the benefits and challenges of this approach?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree will the team ensure that all members equitably share the work essential to the success of the team?
   
   

2. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the typical challenges IBM MQ project teams face during each of the five process groups?
   
   

3. Change Management Plan: Will a different work structure focus people on what is important?
   
   

4. Risk Management Plan: Methodology: how will risk management be performed on this IBM MQ project?
   
   

5. Quality Audit: Are there sufficient personnel having the necessary education, background, training, and experience to assure that all operations are correctly performed?
   
   

6. Schedule Management Plan: Is there a procedure for management, control and release of schedule margin?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: Are the official minutes written in a clear and concise manner?
   
   

8. Requirements Traceability Matrix: What percentage of IBM MQ projects are producing traceability matrices between requirements and other work products?
   
   

9. Source Selection Criteria: What will you use to capture evaluation and subsequent documentation?
   
   

10. Project Scope Statement: What process would you recommend for creating the IBM MQ project scope statement?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IBM MQ project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IBM MQ 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 MQ 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 MQ investments work better.

This IBM MQ 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.