NeoPragma LLC is an IBM Business Partner
Announcements
- Process Improvement for Software Teams is a new full-day workshop on how to improve software development and delivery processes. Technical professionals with training and experience in disciplines like programming, testing, infrastructure, and operations are often unsure how to manage and improve processes as such, as that is not their professional focus. Many software teams thrash as they try to apply the idea of self-organization to improve their processes, often adding overhead and complicating things rather than making changes that improve delivery performance meaningfully. Facilitated by Dave Nicolette, a 46 year veteran of software development and delivery, the workshop shows how to apply princples and tools from Lean Thinking, Systems Thinking, Agile, and root cause analysis to effect incremental improvement in delivery performance. This is an in-person, hands-on workshop intended for multiple software teams in an organization. It includes instruction in the relevant principles and tools as well as analysis of the actual delivery processes used in the organization. The workshop can be run virtually but results will be better if it is done live.
- Mainframe Bootcamp is a three- to six-week hands-on introduction to traditional z/OS technologies for software professionals who will be supporting IBM z systems and applications, and need to gain basic skills quickly. Content includes IBM z architecture, the z/OS operating system, Job Control Language (JCL) and system utilities, TSO/ISPF, File Manager, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, and DB2. It does not cover third-party add-on products. The bootcamp has been run online/remote, but can also be given in person.