by Colin Cecil | Jan 16, 2025 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Technical Debt
Archiving an application’s data to a data vault takes time, effort and is a costly undertaking. The data migration must be planned, executed, tested and documented. Decisions have to be taken on which reports are required, then these also have to be built,...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 20, 2024 | Delivering Value, Service Delivery, Technical Debt
There is a common misconception that savings from an application retirement are realized at the time of retirement. In reality a large portion of the savings can be realized at the time of decommissioning, and with good planning savings can be realized earlier in the...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 20, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Technical Debt
As I’ve noted elsewhere in this blog we are data governance experts masquerading as IT garbagemen. We have spent far too much time and money cleaning up data from legacy applications rather than investing that effort into delivering value. Bottom line –...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Risk Management, Technical Debt
The process of archiving data can be expensive, from the movement and testing of data, the creation of reports and the documentation of the process. It is necessary when the data is subject to records retention and needs to preserved for a long period. Another option...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 21, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
Cars Age Better Than Applications Every Friday night in local towns there are displays of vintage cars, all immaculately maintained, engines clean, leather polished, windows and dashboards gleaming. Some were top of the line originally, some were more mass produced....
by Colin Cecil | Aug 18, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
What is Considered an Orphaned Application? Every found a server stuck in a closet still running with some application on it? Acquired a company and all of the employees headed straight for the exit? An unlisted application is found on a server that has to be retired?...
