At the request of the head of its IT Department, MAIF's Methods and Quality services had a mission to design an observatory of the quality of COBOL programs: AQUAPARC.

In 2007, Deisk implemented this projet for MAIF, in partnership with GFI Informatique, as a fixed price contract.

MAIF had defined Programming Rules in a document called "Cobol Developer's Guide". The objective of AQUAPARC was to create an Intranet portal which would show their real implementation status in Cobol Programs, and follow their evolution through time.

Goals

• Short term: heighten management staff and developers' awareness of the application portfolio's state; and deliver significant information to the head of IT department in order to make possible the definition of corrective actions inside a quality improvement approach;
• Medium term: show the information the developers need to effectively improve code quality.

Project

The project was based on a subset of 33 "imperative" rules. The solution was deployed successfully on time and within the budget.

So as to avoid a "tunnel effect", and to take any remark into account as soon as possible, the project was cut into three successive stages, with intermediate delivery and validation.

Success was achieved through the participants' strong involvment, a good project method and the skillful use of automated tools.

Result

The result is a monthly updated Intranet website, available to the IT Head, Methods and Quality teams as well as to Developers, that offers:

Evolutions

Perspectives