When the Swedish government stopped funding the COBOL vocational training program taught at JENSEN Business School we had to act quick as to ensure the competence for the future, this was in 2015 and many of our developers were approaching retirement age. We laid the foundation for our own inhouse COBOL school and it has ran every year since it´s inception in 2016, getting better and better with each iteration.
I will talk about how we have set it up, how we are attracting young people to try COBOL, what challenges we face and most importantly what we have learned.