Mainstreaming the Mainframe - Taking the Agile and DevOps Journey
summary
Claims a reproducible path to go from yearly Waterfall releases to two‑week sprint cadence using 10 steps to mainframe agility. Recommends modern editors (Eclipse/VS Code), source control with metrics, Jenkins/CI pipelines, automated unit and performance testing on mainframe, and one coordinated deploy tool (APIs/webhooks so distributed and z/OS deploys run together). Cites a Forrester figure (≈75% say mainframe is critical), practical success metrics—deploy frequency, MTTR, code coverage, reduction in production defects—and examples of cross‑platform, automated releases.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Mainframe DevOps challenges
- 1:14Mainframes in modern IT
- 2:37Fractured mainframe ecosystem
- 3:21Ten steps to mainframe agility
- 5:46Assess DevOps state
- 9:57Modernize dev environment
- 12:25Automated testing early
- 14:14Code and data visibility tools
- 15:50Empower developers
- 18:30Train agile processes
- 21:59Integrate operational data
- 23:49Source code management
- 25:56Automate production deploy
- 28:45Continuous delivery across platforms
- 31:55Closing advice and next steps
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