Private Equity Sits on a 9-Year Backlog
The Wall Street Journal published a number last month that deserves more attention than it is going to get. At the current pace of exits, … Read more
Greg Scandrett
Why Legacy Modernization Keeps Failing the Same Way
Every modernization program starts with the same artifacts: a technology assessment, a target architecture diagram, a migration timeline, and a budget built around infrastructure and … Read more
You Don’t Need a Big Consulting Firm to Modernize Legacy Software
Somewhere in your organization is an application that only two or three people fully understand. It has been patched, extended, and quietly kept running for … Read more
The Deadline You Bought Two Years to Avoid
In 2027, the decision a great many organizations deferred comes due. The version of VMware they upgraded to specifically to buy time reaches the end … Read more
Your VMware Provider May Not Be There in 2027
Broadcom has narrowed the VMware partner ecosystem to a fraction of its former size. For organizations running on a hosted VMware environment, the question is … Read more
Do Your Legacy Systems Belong in the Secure by Design Conversation?
Regulators and security leaders increasingly expect software to be secure by design. The harder question is what that expectation means for the legacy systems quietly … Read more
Everything Was in Place. The Modernization Still Stalled.
We recently conducted an internal debrief with a software portfolio leadership team that had, on paper, done everything correctly. The modernization roadmap was defined. Funding … Read more
How to Migrate Off VMware Without the Chaos
Last week we made the case that the smart money is already leaving VMware, and we closed on an uncomfortable truth. Migration is hard, and … Read more
Why Smart Money Is Already Moving Off VMware
For most of the last decade, VMware was the safe choice, the platform you could standardize on without anyone questioning the decision. That era is … Read more
How Organizations Break Free from the Endless Development Backlog
Most organizations eventually find themselves staring at the same uncomfortable reality. The development backlog keeps growing, yet the amount of work actually delivered never seems … Read more
