Of the technological decisions facing corporate management, modernization of critical legacy software is one of the most complex. Yet potential costs and risks require that fundamental decisions be made or ratified by senior management outside of IT who may be imperfectly informed with regard to the business implications of such technological decisions.
You will be introduced to the business and technical issues you must consider in charting a strategic plan for legacy modernization in your unique circumstances. Critical business issues must be balanced against your organizational goals, resources, and risk tolerance. Four different technical strategies and project architectures are evaluated in this light. This course is designed for both technical, non-technical managers, and executives who will join group exercises that will ensure that you can apply the material to their legacy modernization plans.
With this class, you'll learn to:
- Optimize among cost, risk, and quality of outcomes for the project
- Derive a business case analysis for modernization
- Categorize applications into the 4 functionality categories
- Derive your organization’s risk tolerance
- Comprehend the 5 modernization strategies, plus hybrid strategies
- Build a straw man project cost for each of the strategies, including testing costs
- Conduct a risk analysis and to derive risk mitigation strategies
- Calculate the potential impact of key technical factors on a modernizationproject and how to mitigate those risks
- Understand the pitfalls that have sunk other projects, and how to avoid them
- Create a scorecard for the alternatives to aid in clear business decisions
Achieve Modern Flexibility
Of the technological decisions facing corporate management, modernization of critical legacy software is one of the most complex. Yet the potential cost and risk to the business requires that fundamental decisions must be made or ratified by senior management outside of IT who may be misinformed with regard to the business implications of technological decisions.
Evaluate Vital Technical Strategies and Project Architectures
ASPE will introduce the business and technical issues you must consider in charting a strategic plan for legacy modernization in your unique circumstances. The critical business issues must be balanced against organizational goals, resources, and risk tolerance. Four different technical strategies and project architectures are evaluated in this light. Group exercises will ensure that you can apply the material to your legacy modernization plans.
Identify, Decide, and Emphasize Practical Approaches to Legacy Modernization
This is designed for both technical and non-technical managers and executives. For those with a technical background, this course will provide you with both an introduction to technological alternatives that can reduce cost and risk, and an explanation of the issues in business terms to facilitate communication with non-IT management. For those without a technical background, this course will provide a discussion of the key technical issues focusing on their relevance to business decision making. For all attendees, the course will provide a methodology to be employed in identifying and deciding on trade-offs, constantly emphasizing the practical approach.
20 Immediate Benefits of Participating in this Workshop:
- Organize your thinking about legacy modernization projects
- Minimize costs on a project
- Minimize risk on a project
- Maximize quality of outcome and consequent business agility
- Organize resources and ensure that the project does not suffer from constraints that impede its efficiency
- Determine your organizational risk tolerance
- Identify new project strategy options
- Estimate cost of testing
- Understand the impact of complexity on cost and risk
- Derive risk matrix for modernization projects
- Understand the business issues in deriving a testing budget
- Estimate cost of each modernization strategy
- Understand the unique risks of each modernization strategy
- Comprehend the source of cost overruns and failures on modernization projects, and how to prevent them
- Understand the risks from alternative project management methodologies
- Leverage the business relevance of platform, language, database, performance, and UI/service orientation factors
- Use the modernization decision methodology for practical project analyses
- Understand the pros and cons of each approach – no silver bullets
- Comprehend the landscape for outsourcing modernization projects
- Derive business case analysis for modernization
