#Call to arms first person software#

#Call to arms first person software#

This skills shortage is so extreme that the software company is training people for free! ThatвЂ™s right вЂ“ no charge! All I had to do is turn up on the door of one of the big accounting firms or system integrators or wait for them to call me. There is huge demand for skills in a new programming language and therefore a huge skills shortage. There is this little known software company that is selling itsвЂ™ applications to almost everyone. I got a few years into my career вЂ“ I was just starting to really understand that this programming thing is actually a bit of an art and just starting to crank out some clever stuff. Say I am someone who gained formal development skills in the late 1980вЂ™s or early 1990вЂ™s. Let me use an extreme example to illustrate my point. I fear that they will find themselves so far behind the rest of the industry that they will struggle to be relevant. I am deeply concerned for the future of those of our colleagues who have not kept in touch with contemporary development trends including ABAP skills. In my view this places you (and me) in the minority of ABAP Developers. Hopefully you also make use of as many of the others as possible as well. You are reading this blog because SCN is one of the resources you rely on to stay relevant. All these, and many others, play a part in honing your skills and keeping them up to date. These include formal training, books, magazines, reading (and writing) blogs, documentation, playing in a sandbox system, setting personal challenges, conferences, webcasts, participating in user groups, birds-of-a-feather meet ups, etc.

There are many ways to keep your skills fresh. For more than 10 years I have consistently been trying to impress upon people in general, and ABAP developers in particular, that it is vital they make keeping their skills up to date a priority.ДЄs my friend Jon Reed says when talking about skills вЂ“ вЂњ If you are not moving ahead вЂ“ you are falling behindвЂњ. Those of you that follow me in any way will know that I am passionate about ABAP Developer skills.