Year 2000 Organizations Year 2000 Compliance Check List

Organization Year 2000 Program Phase or Activity Questions:
Awareness  Assessment  Renovation  Validation  Implementation  Program Management

 Organizations Year 2000 Program Phase or Activity -- Processes:

Awareness -- Assessment -- Renovation -- Validation -- Implementation -- Program Management
Organizations Year 2000 Compliance Check List
Awareness
Has the organization defined and documented the potential impact of the Year 2000 problem?

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 the organization established an executive management council or committee to guide the Year 2000 program?

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?

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Assessment

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:

Has the organization analyzed its system portfolio and identified for each system: Has the organization prioritized its system conversion and replacement program?

The organization's prioritization process includes ranking by business impact ranking by anticipated failure date identification of

Has the organization established Year 2000 project teams for business areas and major systems?

Has the organization developed a Year 2000 program plan?

The organization's program plan includes schedules for all tasks and phases:

Has the organization identified and mobilized required resources and capabilities?

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 addressed interface and data exchange issues?

Has the organization has analyzed:

Has the organization initiated the development of contingency plans for critical systems?

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:

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Renovation

Is the organization meeting its budget and schedule in the conversion of

Is the organization meeting its budget and schedule in developing bridges and filters to handle non-conforming data?

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 meeting its budget and schedule in eliminating targeted applications and system components?

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

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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:

Is the organization tracking the testing and validation process and collecting and using test metrics to manage the testing activities?

Has the organization initiated acceptance tests?

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Implementation

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?

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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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