Congressional Statement.
Statement of Representative Stephen Horn, Chair, Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.
Preface.
I. CEO/CIO: THE CHALLENGE.
1. Top Ten List of Excuses Not to Address Year 2000 Issues, Dale F. (Doc) Farmer, SBC Warburg Corporate Audit.
2. Director's Guide to the Year 2000, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
3. The Millennium Rollover Is Not a Surprise, Dick Lefkon, New York University.
4. I'm Not Worried, Ernst & Young, LLP.
5. The Century Date Problem: How Bad Can It Be? Milt HabecK, Unbeaten Path International.
6. Actionable Caveats, Chris Casey, Bytewise Consulting, Inc., Ted Fisher, Sperduto & Associates, Inc.
7. Have You Selected These Seven Methods? Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
8. Four Primary Compliance Criteria, Yngvar Tronstad, Jan Peterson, Joe Ramirez, Jack Ashburner, Grant Robinson, Ascent Logic Corporation.
9. FIPS Publication 4D1 Change Notice, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
10. Proposed Draft Revised American National Standard X3.30, Representation of Date for Information Interchange, American National Standards Institute.
11. Product Certification and Year 2000 Infrastructure, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
12. Millennium Rollover: The Year 2000 Problem, NIST Computer Systems Laboratory.
13. So You Can't Program Your VCR? Harold Carruthers, Edward Jones & Co.
14. The Successful Year 2000 Project Office, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
15. Year 2000: The End of IS? Gerhard Adam, Syspro, Inc.
II. CEO/CIO: SURVIVING FAILURE.
16. Surviving the 21st Century, Ken Orr, The Ken Orr Institute.
17. The Y2K Bear Market of 1997 ??DO99, John Westergaard, Westergaard Online.
18. Prepare for Worse, Gregory Cirillo, Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins, Ira Kasdan, Galland, Kharasch & Garfinkle, P.C.
19. You Can Lose Your House and Yacht, Warren Reid, WSR Consulting Group, LLC.
20. You Might Receive a OCO Grade, Tom Bachman Mitre, Stephen Horn and Carolyn Maloney, House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, Dick Lefkon, New York University, Denis J. Reimer, General, United States Army Chief of Staff, Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of the Army.
21. Nuclear Disaster and the Millennium Trojan Horse, Dick Lefkon, New York University.
22. Replacing Your Embedded Chips, Bill Payne, Kramer & Kent, Dick Lefkon Millennium Associates
23. Ignore the "New" Y2K Project Management at Your Peril, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
24. How Do You Know Without Testing? Miro Medek, Mitretek Systems.
25. Are You Testing Enough? Dick Lefkon, Millennium Associates.
III. CEO/CIO: GETTING STARTED.
26. Software Conversion: Issues and Observations, Information Technology Association of America.
27. Metrics and Findings, Viasoft.
28. Surround Yourself with Solutions, Daniel Miech, Terasyssm, Inc.
29. Technical Solution Overview, Chris Casey, Bytewise Consulting, Inc., Ted Fisher, Sperduto & Associates, Inc.
30. Assessment Metrics Checklist, Micro Focus Limited.
31. New Development Initiatives, Jim Zetwick, Borden Foods Corporation.
32. Catastrophe or Opportunity? Cap Gemini America.
33. Project Tasks, Platinum Technology, Inc.
34. Year 2000 Firewall: Using an Inexpensive Time Machine, Judy Brand, JBG Pygmy Mainframes.
35. Starting the Assessment Process, Gerhard Adam, Syspro, Inc.
IV. CEO/CIO: THE COST.
36. Budget All Activities, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
37. Five More Reasons Many Delayed, Michael Gerner, Unibol, Ltd.
38. Project Cost Estimating: Simple to Sophisticated, John Trewolla, Trewolla Technology Taskforce.
39. E-S-T-I-M-8-R, U. S. Department of Defense.
40. Capacity? Swap Consultant, Mainframe, Sanford Keith, Feld Bestbuilt Systems, IBM.
41. Global Economic Impact, Capers Jones, Software Productivity Research, Inc.
V. CEO/CIO: SENIOR MANAGEMENT APPROACHES, Chris Casey, Bytewise Consulting, Inc., Ted Fisher, Sperduto & Associates, Inc.
42. Enterprise Management Approach.
43. Year 2000 Scope and Impact.
44. Requirements, in Business Terms.
45. Board Room: Legal, Accounting, Marketing, Risk.
46. Getting from Awareness to Acceptance.
47. Perspective, Conflict, Commitment, Scope Creep.
48. Solution: Time, Cost, Risk.
49. Methodology Phase I: Non-Compliance Risks, Positives.
50. Phase II: Teams, Impact Analysis, Contingency.
51. Phase III: Reaping the Rewards.
VI. CEO/CIO: Y2K CONTRACTS.
52. Corporate Legal Issues, Jeff Jinnett Of Counsel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P.
53. Vendor Liability, Courtney H. Bailey, Esq. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
54. Recommended Contract Language, General Services Administration.
55. Warranty and Compliance Agreement, Timothy Feathers, Hillix, Brewer, Hoffhaus, Whittaker & Wright, L.L.C., Year 2000 Compliance Agreement.
56. Challenges and Legal Aspects, Warren Reid, WSR Consulting Group, LLC.
57. Ten Action Items, Ira Kasdan Galland, Kharasch & Garfinkle, P.C.
VII. EXPERT: SEVEN METHODS.
58. Date Windowing, Larry Baltezore, State of California.
59. Bridging: Fixed and Sliding Windows ???DFSORT, IBM.
60. Bridging: Fixed and Sliding Windows ???SyncSort MVS, SyncSort Incorporated.
61. New Windowing Method, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
62. Procedural and Data Change, Andrew Eldridge, Complete Business Solutions, Inc., Robert Louton, GTE.
63. Change Strategies, Gerhard Adam, Syspro, Inc.
64. Dynamic Bridging, Viasoft.
65. Time Shifting, Don Estes, Don Estes & Associates.
66. Migration Strategies, Don Estes, Don Estes & Associates.
67. Reformatting Year-Date Notation, IBM.
VIII. EXPERT: DATE DETAILS.
68. Identifying 2-Digit-Year Exposures, IBM.
69. Technical Solutions, Michael Lips, Platinum Technology, Inc.
70. Embedded Dates, Richard Bergeon, Data Dimensions, Inc.
71. COBOL, Patrick Hagan, Project One Computer Consultants.
72. Date Routines, Harold Zbiegien, American Greetings Corp.
73. Extended Interval Aging, Jerome and Marilyn Murray.
74. Reengineering Your Software for the Millennium, William Brew Reasoning, Inc.
IX. EXPERT: EARLY TESTING.
75. Testing Techniques. IBM.
76. Implementation Issues Checklist, Micro Focus Limited.
77. What Can You Do for Microcomputers? Bryce Ragland, USAF.
78. Novell Products and the Year 2000, Tom Hartman, Novell.
79. UNIX Time, Richard Painter, Painter Engineering, Inc.
80. TICTOC/CICS, Isogon.
81. XPEDITER/Xchange, Gary Deneszczuk, Compuware Corp.
82. HourGlass 2000, Jerry Nelson, Mainware.
X. EXPERT: TEST TOOLS.
83. Don't Need No Stinking Test Tools! Randall Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
84. capture End User Sessions, Platinum Technology, Inc.
85. File-AID/MVS, Compuware Corp.
86. Tool Categories, IBM.
87. Software Testing Technologies, Gregory T. Daich, Gordon Price, Bryce Ragland and Mark Daewood, United States Air Force.
88. Relational Test Data, Joseph Allegra, Princeton Softech, Inc.
89. Selecting Your Automated Test Tools, Dick Lefkon, Millennium Associates.
XI. MANAGER: USER SUCCESSES.
90. The First Two Year 2000 Factories, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
91. The Y2K Project at BIAMAX S.A., Christos Andritsoyiannis, BIAMAX, S. A.
92. University of Florida, Robin Marrin, Information Systems, University of Florida,
93. White Paper ? SSA, Social Security Administration.
94. Project Plan Outline, Brenda McKelvey, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
95. Leveraging the Experience of Others, Bill Wachel, The Greentree Group.
96. You DonOt Have to Face It Alone! Stan Price, Arizona Millennium Group.
97. User: Your First Three Steps, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
XII. MANAGER: COMPLEAT Y2K MANAGER.
98. Project Planning, Gerhard Adam, Syspro, Inc.
99. Planning to Resolve Your Year 2000 Exposures, IBM.
100. USAF Compliance Checklist, U.S. Air Force.
101. Concurrent Phasing: Heart of the Y2K Factory, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
102. Commitment Counts, Rita Tragesser, Germaine IndustrieS.
103. Project Management Office, USAA, Cesar Gonzalez, PMP, USAA.
104. Program Management Office in Action, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
105. Century Date Compliance, Bill Goodwin, TickTickTick.
106. Standards, Dick Lefkon, Year 2000 Committee of AITP SIG-Mainframe.
107. Migration Weekend, IBM.
108. Conversion Methodology, N.T. Shivkumar, Curt Terwilliger, HCL America, Inc.
109. Assessment Guide, General Accounting Office.
XIII. MANAGER: OUTSOURCING.
110. Negotiating Your Remediation Contract, Gregory Cirillo, Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins.
111. Questionnaires, John Rovito, Paragon.
112. Product Questionnaire, Gerhard Adam, Syspro, Inc.
Biographies.
Directory.
1996 Original Announcement of Best Practices Book, Kathryn Jennings, AITP SIG-Mainframe, Association of Information Technology, Professionals Membership Application.
