Starting a new project, launching a new platform, releasing a new workflow. There is a plethora of documents out there suggesting best practices, considerations, patterns and possible solutions for how and when to start a project or process. Interestingly, however, there is not enough focus on retiring outdated and costly legacy applications in a way that meets business and compliance needs.

Conducting an assessment based on factors such as the value of the application to the business, the cost of retiring it, and the potential savings that can be achieved is the first step at the project level. What else can we do at application development and even more so at operations?

In this session we will discuss what challenges every project should consider when thinking about the entire software application lifecycle.

In this session we will explore fitness functions as measure of effectiveness, efficiency, and adherence to best practices. It encompasses various aspects, including functionality, readability, maintainability, and performance.
Other topics that will be included are: ( list is not exhaustive BECAUSE this is not a X things that you should know type of session )
- Code Complexity, Churn, Duplication, and Smell
- Data Migration ( data integrity and consistency)
- Incremental Rollout
- Disaster Recovery and Rollback Plan
- Security Plans, concerns and disclosures