1. Gartner rates Year 2000 status in five phases. How would you rate the overall readiness of your organisation?

1. Preliminary activity
2. Problem determination
3. Plan complete / resources committed
4. Operational sustainability
5. Fully compliant

2. Is the status of mission critical systems reported to the Board on a regular basis?

3. Did you consider reassigning and retraining non-programming permanent staff to do re-mediation or testing?

4. Is the Year 2000 project leader a member of top management?

5. Are you aware of the negative insurance implications if the answer to the previous question is no?

6. Is the internal audit department active in the Year 2000 project?

7. Have risk analysis and contingency plans been approved by the external auditors?

8. Have you obtained legal opinion on your potential risks?

9. Has your organisation adopted the ISO8601 YYYY-MMM-DD format for all correspondence and reporting?

10. Is your organisation prepared to sign the "Action 2000 Pledge"?

11. Have the implications of the Euro currency been integrated into your Year 2000 plan?

12. PC and LAN exposure are classed in five layers. For which layers does your Year 2000 plan caterfor testing and fixing. (please indicate).

1. Hardware and BIOS
2. Operating System
3. Application software
4. Data conversion to four digit years
5. Data transferred between applications
6. None
7. All

Assuming "verified" to mean a document that has signoff from audit, legal and top management.

13. Do you have a verified strategic plan for Year 2000?

14. Do you have a verified testing plan for Year 2000?

15. Do you have a verified contingency plan for Year 2000?

16. Is there a procedure to ensure that purchasing only acquires Year 2000 compliant or ready products?

17. Have all managers in the organisation received Year 2000 training?

18. Is Year 2000 progress communicated to all staff? (newsletters, notice boards, etc.)

19. Are you 100% ready for the Year 2000?

20. Has spend on Year 2000 compliance resulted in other IT projects being frozen?

21. If yes to above do you think this will have an adverse impact on your company’s competitive position in the market in 2000?

22. Have you capitilised on the Year 2000 compliance process to:

1. Outsource some IT operations
2. Downsize from mainframe / midrange to NT
3. Downsize from mainframe / midrange to Unix
4. Replace aging hardware
5. Implement ERP
6. Replace mission critical systems entirely

23. Has your Year 2000 compliance exercise been done by:

1. Your In-house IT operation
2. An Outsourced company
3. Contractors
4. Vendors / suppliers
5. Year 2000 Software factory
6. All of the above

24. Does your organisation make use of EDI or electronic commerce?

25. Have you assessed the impact of EDI or electronic commerce partners not being Year 2000 compliant?

26. By end 1999, how much do you expect your company to have spent in correcting the Year 2000 problem in your IT systems?

1. Less than R1 million
2. R1 million to R10 million
3. R10 million to R20 million
4. R20 million to R30 million
5. More than R30 million
6. No comment

27. What estimating method was used for the 1998 budget purposes as to your Year 2000 spend?

1. Thumb-suck
2. Top-down
3. Bottom-up
4. Algorithm
5. Other

28. Have your organisation experienced any Year 2000 problems to date?

1. Abends
2. Corrupt data
3. Incorrect data processing
4. Inaccurate output
5. Yes, but not sure what
6. Don’t know

29. When completed, what do you expect your company’s Year 2000 man-effort to be?

1. 1 – 10 man years
2. 10 – 20 man years
3. 20 – 50 man years
4. 50 – 100 man years
5. more than 200 man years