7: Your Legacy Application: Should it Stay or Should it Go?

Development Best Practices

Chris Vitko, ILM Principal Architect, joins us in the seventh episode of the Development Best Practices podcast to walk through Your Legacy Application. Chris talks through the "When" and the "How" of Legacy Applications replacement, but first we start with the "If" - the question of SHOULD you replace your Legacy Application. We then talk timing and approaches to doing the replacement, whether to add new features, and conclude with a brief discussion on how to pay for it.
1:25 Best Practices in pouring fence post concrete
3:15 What is a Legacy Application?
4:35 How to evaluate IF you need to replace your Legacy Application
6:50 The challenge of specialized tech
7:50 Pros/Cons in various approaches in replacing a Legacy Application
13:30 Adding new features during Legacy Application replacement
15:00 Budgeting and funding your upgrade
The Development Best Practice Podcast is brought to you by ILM Professional Services. Do you have a Legacy Application and need to decide if it's time to replace it? Or maybe you've already decided it's time and need to figure out an approach? In either case, ILM can help. Please visit ilmservice.com today to request some time with Chris or one of our other fabulous frontend architects.