Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Mainframe Modernization Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Mainframe Modernization 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 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Mainframe Modernization improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:
- How will we identify the key stakeholders who will be affected by the integration of modernized mainframe applications with other business intelligence and analytics systems, and ensure their buy-in and participation throughout the integration process?
- Are there any plans to establish a center of excellence or community of practice to promote best practices and sharing of knowledge in IT governance and risk management for modernized mainframe applications and systems?
- How will the performance of modernized mainframe applications be measured in terms of response time, throughput, and resource utilization, and what thresholds will be used to determine acceptable performance levels?
- How will ITSM processes be integrated with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies for modernized mainframe applications and systems, and what are the benefits and implications of this integration?
- What provisions will be made to ensure that modernized mainframe systems meet the organization's standards for Section 508 compliance, particularly in regards to screen reader compatibility and high contrast mode?
- How will service level agreements (SLAs) be defined and managed for modernized mainframe applications and systems, and what are the key performance indicators (KPIs) that will be used to measure service quality?
- What KPIs will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of service-level agreements (SLAs) and operational-level agreements (OLAs), and how will these be integrated with existing IT service management frameworks?
- What are the integration patterns and architectures that will be used to connect the modernized mainframe applications with the other business intelligence and analytics systems, and how will they be secured?
- How will we ensure that modernized mainframe systems provide clear and consistent instructions and guidance for users, including those with varying levels of literacy or proficiency in the dominant language?
- How will we determine the data elements that will be shared between the modernized mainframe applications and the other business intelligence and analytics systems, and ensure data consistency and integrity?
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 Mainframe Modernization book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Mainframe Modernization Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Mainframe Modernization project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Formal Acceptance: Is formal acceptance of the Mainframe Modernization project product documented and distributed?
- Procurement Management Plan: Are the results of quality assurance reviews provided to affected groups & individuals?
- Procurement Audit: Is free and fair (international) competition promoted by organizational policies and legislation, in line with legal, trade organizations and other policies?
- Activity Cost Estimates: Will you use any tools, such as Mainframe Modernization project management software, to assist in capturing Earned Value metrics?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: What are the risks involved in appointing external agencies to manage the Mainframe Modernization project?
- Cost Baseline: Are procedures defined by which the cost baseline may be changed?
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix: What are some important Mainframe Modernization project communications management tools?
- Procurement Management Plan: Was an original risk assessment/risk management plan completed?
- Quality Management Plan: How does your organization design processes to ensure others meet customer and others requirements?
- Procurement Audit: Do the buyers always select or authorize the source of supply on other than contract purchases?
Step-by-step and complete Mainframe Modernization Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Mainframe Modernization project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Mainframe Modernization project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization project with this in-depth Mainframe Modernization Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization 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 Mainframe Modernization investments work better.
This Mainframe Modernization 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.
