Ibm Z Toolkit

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An emphasis is placed on delivering highly scalable, cost effective, and high performing designs that integrate seamlessly with distributed and cloud products and solutions.

  • Assure your planning complies; its software defined solutions provide cost effective and easy to implement protection that is transparent to end users and simple for IT to administer and control.

  • Confirm your planning coordinates technical release activities with applications development and operations staff to ensure.

  • Make sure that your organization provides application Software Development services or Technical Support typically in a defined project.

  • Methodize: through your family of companies, you provide an extensive range of services to a broad portfolio of clients.

  • Become the expert in word processing software, spreadsheet software, development software, and internet software.

  • Ensure compliance to all Security Policies and procedures for organization and ensure efficient work of staff.

  • Confirm your team provides support for software, hardware and networking support for desktops, laptops and servers.

  • Utilize statistics, analysis methods and utilities to troubleshoot issues with hardware/software components, data files and databases.

  • Manage advanced knowledge in z Architecture Systems Design and development with expertise in most.

  • Establish that your team applies technical expertise to support the deployment of the technology architecture and the total system solution.

  • Develop: impact cost saves and cost avoidance by standardizing design solutions and optimizing Database Management system infrastructure and application efficiencies.

  • Assure your design coordinates with product engineering, Technical Support, sales, and marketing regarding product specifications.

  • Be accountable for offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

  • Determine and execute various management programs and services and ensure support to organization.

  • Organize: document all platform service Processes And Procedures and maintain the artifacts in a document repository.

  • Identify and analyze business requirements to integrate hardware storage operating systems and connectivity solutions in line with Strategic Direction.

  • Ensure your organization prototypes the new features, functions and strategies of new application subsystems technology.

  • Confirm your design evaluates mainframe computer performance and monitors system resource usage for Capacity Planning considerations.

  • Establish that your organization coordinates with Product Management, Technical Support, sales, and marketing regarding product specifications.

  • Control: work closely with all levels of enterprise services to deploy and support your mainframe infrastructure and application stack.

  • Prepare initiatives for Information Systems and application systems through efficient coordination with internal customers.

  • Be accountable for leveraging modern technologies to develop leading edge solutions to bring forward offerings to your Managed Services clients.

  • Manage capacity and performance teams in proactively addressing potential performance issues impacting Service Levels.

  • Ensure you conceptualize; lead various application teams in the development and upgrade of your organizations Application Portfolio.

  • Organize: partner with the IT infrastructure and security teams to harden and secure the application environments.

  • Be accountable for researching and provisioning new technology solutions to meet the demands of your business application owners.

  • Collaborate with teams and implement most relevant development tools/techniques to solve client issues and exceed client requirements.

  • Collaborate with project team members and stakeholders to translate business requirements into documented Technical Specifications, architecture and requirements.

  • Create, socialize and maintain Standards, Policies and Procedures for all system z software and hardware specific to performance.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Ibm Z 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 Z improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What are the expected Ibm Z results?

  2. What are internal and external Ibm Z relations?

  3. How do you manage Ibm Z Knowledge Management (KM)?

  4. What are the known security controls?

  5. How do you hand over Ibm Z context?

  6. How do you know if you are successful?

  7. How do you prevent mis-estimating cost?

  8. What methods do you use to gather Ibm Z data?

  9. Marketing budgets are tighter, consumers are more skeptical, and Social Media has changed forever the way you talk about Ibm Z, how do you gain traction?

  10. Which issues are too important to ignore?


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

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

  • 62 step-by-step Ibm Z Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Ibm Z 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 Z project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Ibm Z project team have enough people to execute the Ibm Z 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 Z 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 Z Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Ibm Z 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 Z 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 Z 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 Z 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 Z 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 Z project with this in-depth Ibm Z Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Ibm Z 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 Z 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 Z investments work better.

This Ibm Z 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.