Earning Criteria

• Must be an employee of IBM CIO, and have experience with GitHub and CI/CD pipeline. The program is available worldwide.
• Must have completed the GitHub and CI/CD for z/OS workshop as a participant or have demonstrated equivalent experience.
• Be recommended by a manager or volunteer to be a mentor by responding to a call for participation prior to each workshop. Mentors should have different combinations of familiarity with GitHub, CI/CD pipeline and z/OS applications, demonstrated by active participation in the CIO Developer Experience developer communities.
• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills and the ability to effectively communicate knowledge of DevOps transformation activities that include Migration of z/OS application to GitHub; Set up of DBB User Build; Set up development environment and CI/CD pipeline configuration; Collaborative workflows with remote repositories (PRs, merges, trunk-based development); Demonstrated soft skills and technical leadership skills by clearly communicating technical concepts and demonstrating collaboration.
• Apply technical skills to help participants succeed during a 5-week workshop dedicated to teaching the skills for working with Git, GitHub, and the CIO CI/CD pipeline. Demonstrate deep understanding by mentoring participants through entirely or at least partially migrating z/OS applications to the CI/CD pipeline on Cirrus 1.0.
• Criteria for evaluation will include daily participation, engagement with workshop participants and fellow mentors and success rate of workshop participants who complete daily tasks. A minimum success rate of 80% is required to earn the badge.