Has the organization conducted a Year 2000 awareness campaign?
Has the organization assessed the adequacy of its program management policies, capabilities, and practices, including configuration management, program and project management, and quality assurance?
Has the organization developed and documented a Year 2000 strategy?
Is the Year 2000 strategy supported by executive management?
Does the organization have a:
Has a program manager been appointed and a Year 2000 program office been established and staffed?
Has the organization identified technical and management points of contacts in core business areas?
Has the organization defined Year 2000 compliance?
Has the organization identified core business areas and processes?
Has the organization assessed the severity of potential impact of Year 2000-induced failures for core business areas and processes?
Has the organization conducted a comprehensive enterprise-wide inventory of its information systems?
Does the organization have a system inventory listing components and interfaces for each system?
Does the organization have a comprehensive plan to identify and eliminate obsolete code?
Has the organization developed a comprehensive automated system portfolio?
The organization's portfolio identifies links to:
The organization's prioritization process includes ranking by business impact ranking by anticipated failure date identification of
Has the organization developed a Year 2000 program plan?
The organization's program plan includes schedules for all tasks and phases:
Has the organization developed validation strategies and testing plans for all converted or replaced systems and their components?
Has the organization analyzed and identified requirements for a Year 2000 test facility?
Has the organization identified and acquired Year 2000 tools?
Has the organization considered implementation scheduling issues?
The organization's program plan addresses:
Has the organization has analyzed:
Does the impact assessment document identify Year 2000 vulnerable systems and processes outside the traditional information resource management area that may affect the organization's operations?
The assessment document addresses the impact of potential Year 2000 induced failure of:
Is the organization meeting its budget and schedule in the conversion of
Is the organization meeting its budget and schedule in the replacement of targeted applications and system components?
Is the organization documenting all code and system modifications and using configuration management to control changes?
Is the organization scheduling:
Is the organization communicating the changes to its information systems to all internal and external users?
Is the organization tracking the conversion and replacement process and collecting and using project metrics to manage the conversion and replacement process?
Is the organization sharing information among Year 2000 projects?
Is the organization is disseminating "lessons learned" best practices
Validation
Has the organization developed and documented test and validation plans
for each converted or replaced application or system component?
Has the organization developed and documented a strategy for testing contractor-converted or replaced applications or system components?
Has the organization implemented a Year 2000 test facility?
Has the organization implemented automated test tools and scripts?
Has the organization performed unit, integration, and system tests on each converted or replaced component?
The organization's testing procedures include the following types of tests:
Has the organization initiated acceptance tests?
Has the organization defined its transition environment and procedures?
Has the organization developed and documented a schedule for the implementation of all converted or replaced applications and system components?
Has the organization resolved data exchange issues and interorganization concerns?
Has the organization dealt with database and archive conversion?
Has the organization completed acceptance testing?
Has the organization implemented contingency plans?
Has the organization updated or developed disaster recovery plans?
Has the organization reintegrated the converted and replaced systems and related databases into the production environment?
Program and Project Management
Has the organization established a Year 2000 program management structure?
The organization has appointed a Year 2000 program manager and established a Year 2000 program team identified technical and management representatives from each core business area
Based on the assessment of its program management capabilities, has the organization developed and implemented policies, guidelines, and procedures to manage a major program?
Does the organization's policies, guidelines, and procedures include:
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