Estate assessment
The document you can actually fund a program from.
Most modernization business cases die in the same place. Somebody asks what it will cost and how long it will take, and the honest answer is a range so wide that no board will approve it.
That range is wide because the estate is unknown, not because estimating is hard. Narrow the first and the second takes care of itself.
What we do
We build a benchmark of the systems in scope, then use it to answer the questions that decide the program.
- What is actually here, including the parts nobody mentioned
- How it hangs together, derived from real dependencies rather than an old diagram
- Where complexity and risk are genuinely concentrated, as opposed to where they are assumed to be
- What is dead, duplicated or unreachable, which is usually more than anyone expects
- Which parts can be moved independently, and which are tangled together
- The architectural and coding anomalies that have accumulated, and which of them will bite during a migration
What you get
The model itself, the derived artifacts and reports, and a written assessment that a non-technical sponsor can read and a technical team can act on.
Findings you can defend
Every conclusion in the assessment is traceable to the code that produced it, so it survives scrutiny from the people who will have to fund the work.
Assessment is where most clients start, and it is deliberately bounded. It should tell you whether the larger program is worth doing before you commit to the larger program.
Get an assessment scoped
A short conversation is usually enough for us to say honestly whether we can help, and roughly what it would take. No obligation either way.