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Planning for application modernization projects frequently stalls because decision makers are frozen in their tracks by uncertainty around the wide range of options and approaches to replacing, improving, rehab’ing or reusing a legacy system. Build versus buy; go fast versus go slow; good versus cheap; user impact; technologies to use (and not use); level of reuse of legacy “stuff”; historical data access; data quality and IT skills are just a few of the considerations that boggle architecture decisions and confound planners. This article outlines some of the metaphors and patterns that have been useful to break the gridlock.

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