{"id":685,"date":"2017-06-21T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morphis-insights.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:09:24","slug":"legacy-modernization-lets-get-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morphis-tech.com\/blog\/legacy-modernization-lets-get-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Modernization &#8211; Let\u2019s Get Real!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two things happened on Monday that left me shaking my head, wondering just what the hell is going on in the US government when it comes to legacy modernization. It\u2019s not just the US government, or government generally, this applies much more broadly and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morphis-insights.com\/innovation-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">something we\u2019ve touched on in the past<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first head shaker was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/06\/19\/white-house-technology-ceo-meeting-239708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">visit of tech industry leaders to the White House<\/span><\/a> to talk about legacy modernization. A photo opportunity, or an in-depth analysis of the problem and possible solutions? As brilliant as these tech leaders are, do they represent the leading edge of knowledge in how to modernize legacy systems?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I was surprised to read (in the article above) that one senior White House official described federal systems as \u201cin some cases 10 to 20 years old.\u201d That would suggest an origin of 1997 to 2007. Perhaps the senior official might have tried Google before openly flaunting his\/her lack of subject matter expertise. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/cio-briefing\/2016\/05\/10-oldest-it-systems-federal-government\/128599\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">recent Nextgov article<\/span><\/a>, the oldest federal government system is 56 years old (1961) &#8211; an IRS system written in assembly and running on a mainframe. The 10th oldest listed in the article is 39 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I guess, to be fair, some federal systems are 10 to 20 years old, it\u2019s just that many are 50 to 60 years old!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Why does this bother me so much? The government does recognize the issue, and has made funds available to solve it, but somehow those funds are being drained by companies who are not solving the problem, and who may not even be able to solve the problem, yet are still considered \u2018strategic consultants of choice\u2019. Check out the first article I linked to at the end of the first paragraph for more commentary on this and why it is happening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Which brings me to the second head shaker from Monday. This was a call I had with the CTO of a large State Government agency. They\u2019re still running legacy COBOL apps on a mainframe and are looking to modernize for all of the obvious reasons (cost, integration, retiring knowledge base etc.). The head shaker was the estimates they had been provided following external feasibility studies, the latest of which suggested 5-7 years to modernize. Yes, 5-7 years, you read that correctly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I don\u2019t know how 5-7 years was derived but I do know, a) it can\u2019t have been generated by a subject matter expert (certainly not in application modernization), b) even with tens of legacy apps to modernize it\u2019s a 1-2 year project at most (including moving off the mainframe), and c) it\u2019s a relatively low cost and close to zero risk project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Is there even any point in today\u2019s rapidly evolving world starting a modernization project with a 5-7 year horizon? Won\u2019t it by definition be old before it\u2019s finished? That\u2019s a topic for another day. Or at least how to continually modernize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If your strategic consultant of choice has provided you with a similarly bleak timeline (and presumably a proportional cost estimate &#8211; did they even offer you fixed price?) then we can help you get real. Contact us using any of the facilities on this site to get the ball rolling.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things happened on Monday that left me shaking my head, wondering just what the hell is going on in the US government when it comes to legacy modernization. It\u2019s not just the US government, or government generally, this applies much more broadly and is something we\u2019ve touched on in the past. 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