IBM Rational Toolkit


• Serve as a resource to Business Analysts and Developers for data related needs.
  
  

• Maintain current knowledge on industry issues/trends and Competitive Products.
  
  

• Arrange that your venture complies; partners cross functionally with Merchandising and Product Development/Technical Design on regular basis.
  
  

• Provide statistically sound consultation on Data Collection, Experimental Design, and Data Analysis to meet project objectives.
  
  

• Manage work on e mail marketing, SEO of web and digital content, management of valuable content for users, conversion optimization, paid advertising, and funnel management.
  
  

• Ensure thE Business vision, User Needs and technical capabilities are aligned and focused on solving the right problems for target users.
  
  

• Confirm your team responds to all inquiries regarding project status; prepares and responds to all regulatory reporting/filings to ensure compliance.
  
  

• Assure your group develops It Security compliance policy, guidelines, and procedures for systems which are typically accessed by a moderate to large user community and which process multiple applications requiring differing Security Controls.
  
  

• Be certain that your organization supports Management Review to measure compliance with relevant regulations and rules and assesses the effectiveness of Internal Controls.
  
  

• Make sure that your organization performs deep dive research on missed SLAs Partners with the vendor to drive Continuous Improvement resulting in improved service and/or lower cost.
  
  

• Integrate Application Software to operating systems, Database Management, Business Applications, monitoring agents, Risk Mitigation agents, backup/recovery agents, network devices and storage devices.
  
  

• Ensure your organization leads the development and implementation of Security Architecture principles and standards that align to your organizations overall business and strategy.
  
  

• Arrange that your planning assess organization around Business Development and Sales Strategies and sales/growth training design.
  
  

• Confirm your business provides a holistic approach to Account Management services, maintenance/recovery support, escalation management and Problem Resolution for a designated portfolio of customers.
  
  

• Prepare and maintain detailed project plans with risk/mitigation plans and issue logs to track and enhance external and Internal Communications.
  
  

• Provide timely updates and solicit feedback through open dialogue with the internal Portals and Collaboration team.
  
  

• Develop, manage and coordinate security related incident communications and functions.
  
  

• Arrange that your organization complies; conducts tests of Internal Controls for audits and investigations of IT, Cybersecurity, telecommunications, and other projects involving technical services; performs audit procedures and security.
  
  

• Evaluate Performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity, and establish the appropriate scalability plans.
  
  


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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IBM Rational 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 999 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 Rational improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. To what extent does each concerned units management team recognize IBM Rational as an effective investment?
   
   

2. What is the recommended frequency of auditing?
   
   

3. If your company went out of business tomorrow, would anyone who doesn't get a paycheck here care?
   
   

4. Is a IBM Rational team work effort in place?
   
   

5. What is the overall business strategy?
   
   

6. What are the costs of delaying IBM Rational action?
   
   

7. What trouble can you get into?
   
   

8. What methods are feasible and acceptable to estimate the impact of reforms?
   
   

9. Are approval levels defined for contracts and supplements to contracts?
   
   

10. How do you keep improving IBM Rational?
    
    


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 Rational book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
   
   

2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Will all IBM Rational project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?
   
   

4. Closing Process Group: Did the IBM Rational Project Team have enough people to execute the IBM Rational project plan?
   
   

5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed IBM Rational project plan (variances)?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?
   
   

8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IBM Rational project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IBM Rational 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 Rational 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 Rational investments work better.

This IBM Rational 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.