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The continuing departure of experienced mainframe legacy software engineers from the workforce is driving the potentially devastating lack of system knowledge and expertise now confronting businesses and governments around the world. These mainframes surreptitiously run the global building blocks of society, from government systems to banking and financial markets and healthcare and insurance industries. Phase […]
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 […]
The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2021 accepted a technical paper authored by current and former Phase Change research scientists for presentation at its 37th annual event in Luxembourg City, Great Duchy of Luxembourg, September 27 – October 1. The paper, “Contemporary COBOL: Developers’ Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location,” was co-authored […]
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 […]
