Sunday, 23 January 2022

Getting Application Modernization Right

 What is App Modernization?

You frequently hear the term - and this can cover and mean a wide set of things.

If you are hampered by your legacy IT systems, you will be keen to take up an application modernization. This is an overall transformation towards a highly scalable and always-on IT ecosystem that changes the traditional project driven mindset of longer release cycles. You want to get away from siloed functions and thinking of quality and operations as an afterthought, to a mindset where you are delivering and operating applications frequently, with much smaller release cycles, improved quality and automations. 

And delivering real business value - not just falling into a trap of measuring how many Story Points were delivered in each sprint. I've frequently seen Story Points as a false measure of business value 

App modernization should provides benefits to an enterprise that accelerate their journey towards a truly digital business - for example - enabling them to launch new and innovative products and focus on their core business instead of spending costs and time in resolving IT issues. 


The cost of legacy technical debt and the need for modernization

 Legacy systems, once the backbone of enterprise IT, are now a major obstacle to innovation, agility, and resilience. Despite the rise of cl...