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		<title>Overheard &#8211; Application portfolio management</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Rouse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Application portfolio management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now with a huge portion of the COBOL workforce retiring (i.e. baby boomers) there is a sense of panic as the ecosystem is threatened by a looming shortage of staff and a scramble to snatch up those few green screen programmers remaining. So here are my questions: Did nobody see this coming? Was anybody [...]]]></description>
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<td>And now with a huge portion of the COBOL workforce retiring (i.e. baby boomers) there is a sense of panic as the ecosystem is threatened by a looming shortage of staff and a scramble to snatch up those few green screen programmers remaining. So here are my questions: Did nobody see this coming? Was anybody paying attention? And what lessons will we learn from this that we can apply to our own little ecosystems of java, PHP, Ruby, and .NET?</p>
<p>Kristina Podnar, <a href="http://www.nativetrust.com/?p=26">A Call for Application Portfolio Management</a></td>
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