COURSE 5430 | 2-day SESSION
Enterprise Legacy Modernization

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Understand the complexity of your legacy systems and how you can manage your company’s modernization

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