3 Steps to Zero-Risk Modernization Part 2 - Floyd Del Muro and Barbara Morris

• Step 2: Structure – Laying a secure foundation with a structured DevOps process To avoid slowing the business, any modernization project must be carried out in parallel with daily development work. Corrections and enhancements must be carried forward on each development branch. Concurrent versioning and automated code merge will keep complexity under control right along the project. Securing a modernization budget? A tight feedback loop is key to maintaining stakeholder buy-in for the project. Whatever your modernization goals, having a structured DevOps process with test automation in place will ensure regular deliveries and the non-regression of your system.

Floyd Del Muro

Director, Business Development at Seneca Global

With 31 years of experience on the IBM midrange platform, Floyd is Director, Business Development for the SenecaGlobal group. In his role at SenecaGlobal, Floyd has been extensively involved in the management of DevOps , Enterprise Modernization and refactoring projects on IBM i, from planning stages through to delivery. His expertise in hybrid application development both native and Cloud makes him a trusted advisor for companies in project rollout, managed services and the introduction of agile methods. Floyd is a trusted global speaker on the subjects of DevOps, Release Management, Modernization, Version Control and BI.

Barbara Morris

Lead Developer for the RPG Compilers, IBM

IBM

Barbara Morris is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta. The first enhancement she developed was the ENDIF/ENDDO opcodes for RPG/400 in V2R1. Some of her most recent enhancements were the ON-EXIT and DATA-INTO opcodes and varying-dimension arrays. A few of the other notable enhancements that she developed for RPG include subprocedures, qualified data structures, call-interaction with Java, Open Access: RPG Edition, and fully-free-form RPG.