Tagged: roadmaps

7 articles

· 2 min read

The first ninety days of a roadmap

A modernization roadmap earns trust or loses it in its first quarter. What to schedule in days 1 through 90, and what to refuse to.

#roadmaps#planning#delivery

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Decommissioning is a project

Turning things off is scoped work with an owner, a sequence and a budget. The modernization industry's least favorite fact.

#roadmaps#decommissioning#cost

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The vendor contract time bomb

The estate's biggest risks are filed in procurement, not running in production. Reading the contracts folder like an engineer.

#roadmaps#vendors#licensing

· 3 min read

What we tell boards about rewrites

The full-rewrite pitch reaches every board eventually. The four questions that separate the rare good one from the expensive kind, with numbers.

#rewrites#roadmaps#strangler-fig

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Leave it alone, on purpose

The most underused line on any modernization roadmap. When not touching a system is the correct engineering decision, and how to make it stick.

#roadmaps#strategy#risk

· 1 min read

Pin the migration to the LTS

.NET 10 shipped this month with three years of support. That release cadence is your planning tool. Use it.

#dotnet#roadmaps