Meet Your Mainframe Staff, 2020
Every site that depends on a mainframe is at a slightly different stage in dealing with the retiring work force. All of these sites would agree that the layout of their mainframe staff in the future...
View ArticleSustaining Efficiency Through Analytics in a Changing World – Three Questions...
The world wakes up every morning oblivious to the fact that the mainframe will never fail them. Whether getting cash from an ATM, shopping online or trading stocks, the mainframe plays a critical, but...
View ArticleToo Many CIOs Still Without Plan To Address Mainframe Skills Shortage
Survey after survey shows that too Many CIOs are still unprepared to address a global mainframe skills shortage. The post Too Many CIOs Still Without Plan To Address Mainframe Skills Shortage appeared...
View ArticleMainframe Innovation, Reimagined
Until recently the mainframe environment at most organizations has been treated like a black box: executives knew it accomplished significant work and it involved significant budget line items but...
View ArticleThe 2-Week COBOL Sprint: Why Mainframe Shops Need It (1)
The digital economy is forcing mainframe shops to change their cultures at a pace way outside their comfort zones. Many developers still believe working slow means safely preventing missteps and...
View ArticleMillennialize the Mainframe: A Modern Mainframe Development Perspective
Many Millennials still perceive working with mainframe technology as a career dead end. But the opposite is true at Compuware, a company doing well to hire and empower Millennials who view working with...
View ArticleCompuware’s Topaz Workbench Bridges Mainframe Generations
The “age of the customer” has placed new demands on the mainframe, necessitating the modernization of this venerable platform's development tools for a new generation of developers. With products like...
View ArticleThe 2-Week COBOL Sprint: How Agile Mends Broken Trust (2)
The bottom line is communication and transparency lead to improved trust among all groups in an organization. Starting with the initial process of establishing business requirements, to the last stage...
View ArticleMillennialize 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 ArticleMeet Your Mainframe Staff, 2020
Every site that depends on a mainframe is at a slightly different stage in dealing with the retiring work force. All of these sites would agree that the layout of their mainframe staff in the future...
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.
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