Platform Forward Group· 1 min read
Every plan runs on two clocks: effort and calendar
Effort time and calendar time are different clocks, and modernization plans keep reading the wrong one. Four hundred words on telling them apart.
#roadmaps#planning
Tagged: roadmaps
8 articles
· 3 min read
Modernization is a staffing problem wearing a technology costume
The estate is not the constraint. The fourteen people who can safely change it are. A longer piece on planning around humans, with dates attached.
#staffing#roadmaps#legacy
· 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
· 2 min read
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
· 2 min read
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
· 2 min read
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