Skills Blender Program 2024

Issued by IBM

The badge earner has improved their technical skills in one of the following areas: installation, customization, migration, RAS, coexistence, performance, benchmarking, systems operations or system recovery actions. They capitalize on the depth and breadth of WSC skilled leaders to grow and expand their existing technical skills. They also demonstrate that they can share valuable technical content with a quarterly activity and apply their newfound technical skills in the field with clients.

Type Validation
Time Weeks
Cost Free

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

Must be an employee of IBM. This badge is targeted at IBM Z Client Technical Specialists, zArchitects, Lab Services & Development professionals.
Interested candidates must review the team scopes and select their interest areas, discuss participation with manager, contact team leads to discuss, and work with manager to prioritize team choices and submit 1st, 2nd, and 3rd team preferences using sign-up sheet. Program Executive and team leaders review and confirm final team placements, striving for a balance of skills and market participation.
Minimum of 72-96 hours per 4-month session of team participation/ contribution on the Skills Blender Program, completing a minimum of 1 activity per quarter.
Activities include: develop presentations, white papers or technical papers, build wildfire classes, health check participation, assessment checklists, productivity tools, run a POC, run a benchmark, presenting at user conferences, workshops, present wildfire classes and other events. Quality of the activity delivery is assessed by the Team Leads.
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