sam's story - what cios should know: application modernization
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Sam's Story Episode 1: (↓Links to next/previous episodes below ↓) Read how Sam managed to convince his managers to invest into application modernization. This is the start of our new series about how to boost effectiveness in your software development. ----------------------- Episode 2: Risk of Depending on Single Developers │ http://tinyurl.com/pk9c789 Episode 3: High Test Coverage and Still Bugs and Errors │ http://tinyurl.com/m7fqyro Episode 4: Get Rid of Quality Debt │ http://tinyurl.com/kpv9mrkTRANSCRIPT
Application Modernization
how to convince business managers to invest into it
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Meet Sam
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
Sam is an ambitious head of software development …
… eager to deliver outstanding software applications.
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happy businessmanagers
Sam
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Sam has a headache…
A business-critical application has grown over years and the code has become very complex.
The costs seem to explode. More and more developers “are consumed” by the application.
The business requirements cannot be implemented in the given time frames.
developer
businessmanager
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
Sam
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What should he do?
Sam tried for years to convince the business managers to invest into modernization of this critical application.
There was no comprehension and no money for modernization. The situation got worse and worse.
?! ?
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
Sam
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What should he do?
If I could just communicate
the technical risks and costs
more convincingly !!!
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
Sam
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Good news for Sam
Software maps? Interesting!
Let’s give it a try.
There is a solution, Sam!
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
Sam
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The solution
Sam analyzed the three core applications including the critical one.
Software Map LegendArea: Lines-of-CodeHeight: McCabeComplexityColor: NestingComplexity
Findings:• “Application1” is huge
compared to Application 2 and Application 3.
• Application 1 has many code areas with complexity problems.
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
“Application 1”
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The solution
Area of complex code that causes high development
costs
The software maps clearly show that the critical application is overly large, complex and consumes high person-power.
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
Findings:• Application 1 has a
specific problematic complexity area where a large fraction of the developers’ time is bound. Here are unnecessarily high costs due to coding in complexity.
Software Map LegendArea: Lines-of-CodeHeight: ComplexityColor: DeveloperTime ($$)
Sam
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Investment approved
We didn’t know that the need to invest is that
urgent!You should have told us
earlier!
Budget and time for Sam’s modernization project has been approved.
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
business manager
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Great job, Sam!
Application Modernization – How to convince business managers to invest into it?
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Sam
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