Joined new project as project manager for mainframe on healthcare client. Should I leave or gain some experience leading teams to delivery before doing so? Worried that I won't have any exit opps. Only good part is that we work on integrating MF data centers to actual apps like active directory and maybe some database management stuff

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When IBM split did it leave you in two?

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I'm pretty serious about this topic. Hope i could get some real answers

If you are truly integrating with or migrating from mainframe to distributed this is not time lost. Replicating databases from one to the other also not time lost. You need a deep understanding of both worlds to be successful that can branch out in many ways - especially as a project manager. If you are a project manager on mainframe using mainframe software/api integration then that’s really sitting more on the mainframe side. There’s nothing wrong with that but recognize whether you are doing integration work, migration work, or just implementing mainframe software. If you don’t want to do mainframe as a career then don’t take too many of those types of projects in a row. Just do a good job on this one and make sure it’s known you want to branch out on the next one.

Great post. Many thanks to u ibm1

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