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.