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Phase Change President Steve Brothers was recently interviewed for an article in The Fintech Times that considers the role AI could soon play in the financial industry. The article, “Phase Change: AI Powers the Future of Financial Services — Just Not in the Ways You Think,” examines how AI will help maintain the software that […]
Phase Change President Steve Brothers recently authored a contributed article for Nextgov.com about how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help governments deal with the mainframe-developers skills shortage and continue to maintain critical legacy systems. The article, How AI Can Help with Critical Government System Maintenance Needs, describes how we should change the current industry strategy […]
A May 28 article published by TechRadar pro, and written by Phase Change President Steve Brothers, explains how the well-reported “COBOL skills shortage” is not really a fundamental problem for enterprises that rely on mainframe systems. The real challenge is application knowledge. Developers can learn COBOL in less than 6 months. What they can’t learn […]
The so-called “COBOL Skills Shortage” is compelling many organizations to impetuously hire and train programmers to maintain, support, and attempt to modernize their COBOL systems. But understanding how to write COBOL is not enough — developers have to comprehend what an application actually does and how code changes can impact the system as a whole […]
Government system failures during the rush to provide public benefits to alleviate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic publicly exposed the mainframe knowledge crisis that also threatens financial institutions, healthcare providers, and many other organizations foundational to the world economy. Several states discovered the knowledge-gap’s potentially devastating consequences when waves of unemployment-claims poured into […]
Phase Change COO Steve Brothers was interviewed and quoted in a TechRadar Pro article published on December 18 about the ‘COBOL skills shortage.’ He shared his insights on how ‘knowledge attrition’ – an organization’s declining application knowledge due to the departure of experienced software developers – was really the cause of government system failures during […]
