WDSc Survivor
Five Brave RPG Programmers Move from PDM/SEU to WDSc
March 2005
March 19, 2005 8:54 AM
Just an update
Sorry is has been so long since I've blogged anything. The Spring is my busiest travel time. I'm always away on some KOA trip right when COMMON is taking place. I heard there was a nice comment about our WDSc work at KOA made to the IBMers in a session. Thanks!
If you've read Jim Collin's book "From Good to Great", Jim talks about the brutal facts. Brutal facts are those things that you have to face, no matter what because they are what they are.
The brutal facts from our survivor journey is two of the four programmers have made the journey and two have not. The last of the five switched roles and doesn't use WDSc much for iSeries development, but has played with plugs ins for PHP.
I never intended to "force", (a very strong word) the developers to use WDSc instead of PDM/SEU. The only way I'll get two of my programmers to convert is to remove PDM/SEU completely. There are many excuses why they don't use it, some of the excuses are legit and others are not, at least in my opinion. The brutal fact is, they don't use it for 100% of their development.
To me, though IBM has WDSc release 5.something.something out there, WDSc is still relatively new. They have come a long ways and talking to the folks with IBM development team, they are excited about what WDSc can do. I'm convinced WDSc is better than PDM/SEU and shops should at least consider giving it a try.
Our mixed environment hasn't proved detrimental to our development work outside of the time spent in conversations either talking it up or talking it down. Healthy dialog though is always a good think, even for programmers!
jef
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