8: Your Legacy Application: A Sherpa’s Guide through Tech Decisions and Training

Development Best Practices

We continue our talk about Legacy Applications with Chris Vitko, ILM Principal Architect. Last episode dealt with the basics, and in this one Chris talks about picking a technical stack for your replacement application and how your current developer team can help drive the changes, and pick up great training and become happier in the process.
1:20 Picking technical stack
4:45 The advantage of an outsider's view of various tech
5:15 The people side of Legacy Application upgrades
8:00 The advantage of a SME, or Sherpa
8:50 The value to employee retention
9:20 Picking a training option
10:15 More on picking technology, and separating dependencies
14:20 Final thoughts on improving an application during the change
15:00 Not all legacy applications need to be replaced
15:25 Using the change as a time to eliminate features
The Development Best Practices Podcast is brought to you by ILM Professional Services. Chris talked about how that "outsider's view" can help in replacing your legacy application. I'll admit, this is a lot of what we do at ILM - helping companies of various sizes in various industries decide if they SHOULD replace their legacy application, advising on approaches and technologies, then being that SHERPA who knows the best pathway to implement that new tech. We'd love to help you as well! Please visit ilmservice.com today to get started!