Millennialize the Mainframe: Transferring Technical Skills
It’s becoming easier for Millennial developers to apply their programming skills to the mainframe. Just look at Justin Lewis, a Millennial software developer at Compuware who has leveraged his...
View ArticleThe 2-Week COBOL Sprint: Having a Critical Conversation About Agile (3)
Perhaps you've realized how poisonous distrust is to your organization. Productivity is suffering, but you’ve discovered Agile can help. Now it’s time to start a conversation with business leaders...
View ArticleMillennialize the Mainframe: Ending the Skills Shortage
Research shows 4 in 10 CIOs don’t have a plan for ending the mainframe skills shortage at their organization. But Compuware is passionate about hiring and educating Millennials to become the next...
View ArticleMillennialize the Mainframe: Innovation with Java and Eclipse
At first, the juxtaposition of mainframe and Eclipse seems counterintuitive—different syntaxes, different cultures, different generations. But the introduction of Java to the mainframe is blurring the...
View ArticleMillennialize the Mainframe: Q&A with Compuware Recruiter Leigh Ann Ulrey
For a perspective of how Compuware goes about finding Millennial mainframe talent, I spoke with Leigh Ann Ulrey, responsible for Compuware’s Global Talent Acquisition. Ulrey is the first and last...
View ArticleMainframe Disinvestment Rue and Recovery: A European Bank’s “Account”
As technologies of engagement flourish and access mainframe data millions of times daily, companies are reversing their neglect of the mainframe and working hard to reinstitute the talent and knowledge...
View ArticleRecruiting the Mainframe Workforce: How to Hire Millennial Developers
When our journey towards mitigating the mainframe skills shortage at our company began, we responded to the foreshadowing of a major skills gap that needed our immediate attention; we realized the next...
View ArticleRecruiting the Mainframe Workforce: Generating Mainframe Awareness
Much of our success with hiring Millennial developers has come from educating students on the powers of the mainframe. The post Recruiting the Mainframe Workforce: Generating Mainframe Awareness...
View ArticleRecruiting the Mainframe Workforce: How to Fill Mainframe Jobs
Early on, we understood timing, training and mentorship should coalesce to ease the process of onboarding individuals to fill mainframe jobs. The post Recruiting the Mainframe Workforce: How to Fill...
View ArticleCompuware Interns Get New Perspectives of the Mainframe and Detroit
Detroit was a new city for the Compuware interns, but it’s also becoming a new city to itself. And like Detroit, the mainframe is becoming a new platform equipped with the familiar culture, processes...
View ArticleWhy Gen X Is Responsible for Mainframe Innovation
The decisions Gen Xers make will be critical to the future of the mainframe, and Millennials. The post Why Gen X Is Responsible for Mainframe Innovation appeared first on Inside Tech Talk.
View ArticleHow to Improve and Market Mainframe Jobs for Millennial Developers
By becoming Agile in combination with the right recruitment marketing techniques, utilities and resources, enterprises can simultaneously innovate the mainframe and attract Millennials to it. The post...
View ArticleMillennials Are Here—Time to Prepare for Gen Z Mainframe Developers
Gen Z mainframe developers will arrive with their own generational idiosyncrasies, à la baby boomers, Gen Xers and millennials before them. It’s the nature of the workplace, and mainframe shops should...
View ArticleHow Gen X Can Build a Mainframe Environment Millennials Love
To attract millennials to the mainframe, it’s time to provide them with modern mainframe development tools like those they love to use in distributed development. The post How Gen X Can Build a...
View ArticleChallenges and Solutions for Hiring Next-Gen Mainframe Developers
Learn some of the major challenges companies face with hiring next-gen developers for mainframe, including barriers keeping Millennials away from mainframe development, and what companies can do to...
View ArticleA New Way to “Mainframe”: An Analyst’s Changed Perspective
In “Mainframe programming and the modern developer," analyst Daniel Howard writes about his change of perspective regarding the ease of mainframe programming with Compuware Topaz and Topaz Workbench,...
View ArticleThoughts About SHARE San Jose from a First-Time Attendee
As a first-time attendee to SHARE, the week can feel a bit Doctor Seussian. Based on my experience, here’s some advice to future first-time SHARE attendees. The post Thoughts About SHARE San Jose from...
View ArticleTop Six Sessions We Attended at SHARE San Jose
SHARE is the ideal industry conference in that it offers over 500 technical sessions for you to choose from. Here are the top six sessions we attended at SHARE San Jose, based on my colleagues’ and my...
View ArticleA Look Back at SHARE San Jose
Long-time SHARE attendee David Rizzo reflects on the multi-layered value of the bi-annual mainframe industry event. The post A Look Back at SHARE San Jose appeared first on Inside Tech Talk.
View ArticleWhat’s in It for You to Make Managing Your Mainframe Easier?
Smart software allows you to leave the routine work to automation or to new hires and explore more interesting, challenging work—the kind of work you never had time to consider. The post What’s in It...
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