Re: What's the median age of the developers in your shop?

How about old and very old?



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From: Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Jun 12, 2015 9:32 am
Subject: RE: What's the median age of the developers in your shop?


If you include Booth, your bell curve will shift far to the right.
:-))

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From:
MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jim
Oberholtzer
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 8:07 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems
Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: What's the median age of the developers in
your shop?

Thank you all for your responses. In an informal way you have
confirmed
much of what we thought was happening in the field. To summarize for
the
archives I received fourteen responses between 30 and 67. The Average
was
46 years and the median is 50. That mirrors the other research I've
seen.
Most shops are getting older while a few are getting younger. The
indicator
is generally if the shop is adopting development strategies that
include web
based/mobile development, then the shop is younger. Many of you
replied
privately regarding specific things.

Adoption of the newer
capabilities of RPG and RDI seem to be increasing as
well as the use of Java
Script, HTML 5. There's a balance in this
self-reported group between .Net,
PHP, and other web based languages.

Note these conclusions are not scientific
rather they are anecdotal in
nature. You can discuss the meaning if you wish
that discussion should now
switch to the non-tech group. Thank you all for
your insights.


--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile
Technology Architects