IBM I Toolkit

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Involve in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile Scrum methodology, gather Business Requirements and Interact with business team and other stake holders.

  • Drive Solution Development through Requirements Gathering, analysis, discovery, Business Plan creation, and solution level of effort estimates.

  • Oversee: proactively monitor Application Performance, improve monitoring alerts, and overall availability of key business components.

  • Steer: technicians must understand and apply concepts to operate the equipment and perform plant Systems Analysis to take actions for identifying, resolving and/or avoiding Failure Modes.

  • Guide: architecture and deliver Data Warehousing solutions that exceed Customer Expectations in content, usability, accuracy, reliability and performance.

  • Collaborate with engineers or Software Developers to select appropriate Design Solutions or ensure the compatibility of system components.

  • Confirm your strategy performs other functions or special projects to ensure effective operations and transactions in your organization.

  • Systematize: log defects in the tracking system and follow entered defects through lifecycle of creation to resolution.

  • Manage work with Order Management and Portfolio management from buy side functionalities and trade processing, clearing, and settlement from the sell side.

  • Create End To End integration Solutions Development for Enterprise Software or hosted High Tech services.

  • Detect, diagnose, analyze, and resolve Customer Problems associated with systems of network and server hardware and Application Software.

  • Ensure your organization complies; exercises management responsibility over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project and its contracts.

  • Arrange that your group uses established Change Management Processes, requiring operational procedures be performed with minimal customer impact.

  • Direct: document and maintain the Disaster Recovery plan for the Server Infrastructure and verify on a continuous basis for integrity of the plan.

  • Establish that your organization compares Intelligence Data with data from other sources to detect discrepancies and determine accuracy of information.

  • Make sure that your design participates in the development, testing, and implementation of new and modified programs to meet Business System User Needs.

  • Make sure that your organization deploys the database components for new application implementations and application upgrades to testing and Production Environments.

  • Be accountable for managing the development and operations of the Enterprise Reporting and Data Warehousing solutions supporting your organization.

  • Ensure that all network and systems are functional and secure and running at acceptable performance levels.

  • Assure your business creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency.

  • Ensure you produce; lead implementation/Development Teams from architectural and technical perspective in delivering reusable, extensible, quality and standardized solutions across multiple projects.

  • Be accountable for providing Continuous Improvement of integration Processes And Procedures based on Industry Standards and implementing Best Practices for all aspects of the Project Lifecycle.

  • Be accountable for ongoing maintenance, security, and availability of Storage and SAN infrastructure based on Business Requirements and adhering to tight operations, security, and procedural models.

  • Manage work with Business Analysts to understand the System Design and work with developers to resolve defects.

  • Steer: industry practice; and determine areas of opportunities and align the development roadmap and direction accordingly.

  • Manage work with the existing Software Defined Infrastructure Team and the ERP team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and support servers for a mixed customer environment.

  • Maximize netWork Performance by monitor performance; troubleshoot network problems and outages; schedule upgrades; collaborate with Network Architects on Network Optimization.

  • Be accountable for creating and maintaining architecture/Technical Design specifications, functional specifications, Release Notes, production Implementation Plans, etc.

  • Update/maintain detailed test plans; develops test scenarios and test scripts; and, traces requirements to Test Cases to ensure coverage for full System Integration test.

  • Initiate: work in complex environments while performing multiple activities on concurrent development projects and existing Production Processes.

  • Confirm your operation evaluates existing Database Design to determine necessary updates and integration requirements of new design, and to ensure final solutions meet organizational needs.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

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

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What is your plan to assess your security risks?

  2. How do you manage scope?

  3. Where is the data coming from to measure compliance?

  4. Are the IBM I requirements complete?

  5. What are the success criteria that will indicate that IBM I objectives have been met and the benefits delivered?

  6. Do IBM I rules make a reasonable demand on a users capabilities?

  7. How will IBM I decisions be made and monitored?

  8. Why is IBM I important for you now?

  9. Who is responsible for ensuring appropriate resources (time, people and money) are allocated to IBM I?

  10. What are the rules and assumptions your industry operates under? What if the opposite were true?


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

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

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

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the IBM I Project Team have enough people to execute the IBM I 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 I 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 I Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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 I 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 I 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 I project with this in-depth IBM I Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose IBM I 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 I 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 I investments work better.

This IBM I 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.