Living in Legacy: Delivery of technology value in a legacy world

I've witnessed firsthand the challenges and opportunities faced by companies navigating the complex world of legacy systems.

In this session, I'll draw on my years of experience to:

Define the “legacy landscape”: We'll explore the different types of legacy systems, their impact on businesses, and the unique challenges they present for technology teams. We will also distinguish between legacy and technical debt. We will show practical and actionable tools to extract legacy ‘reasoning’ and ‘design’ and transform them into moder landscapes.

Understand the business context: We'll shift perspectives, examining how legacy systems support core business functions and value propositions. Extracting out of a legacy system is essential. And the core capabilities it supports even more so.

Bridge the gap: Technology delivery strategies: We'll delve into practical strategies for delivering technology value within a legacy environment, including:

Modernization techniques: Refactoring, microservices, and API integration.

Legacy coexistence strategies: Leveraging existing investments while adopting new technologies.

Change management considerations: Aligning stakeholders, navigating risk,and ensuring adoption.

Real-world case studies: Learn from real-world examples of companies successfully delivering technology value in legacy environments.

Open discussion: Share your own challenges and experiences, and engage in a collaborative discussion about navigating the legacy landscape.

About Paul Preiss

Paul Preiss is the CEO and Founder of the Iasa, one of the largest Enterprise and IT architect associations in the world. Through his time at Iasa, Paul has taken the association from a single user group in Austin Tx to an international organization with chapters in over 25 countries. Paul's vision is a unified architecture profession with effective education, credentials and ethics which fully supports corporate strategy and delivery. He is a tireless advocate for the field and speaks on topics ranging form architecture ethics to best the best setup and structure for architecture teams. Paul has spoken at hundreds of events as well as held conferences and training for architects all over the world. He is an expert software and enterprise architect in practice and continues to work with companies on optimizing their technology strategy.

Prior to developing Iasa, Paul was the chief architect for Dell Pan Asia where he helped to integrate the technology strategy across 14 countries. He also served as the chief architect for the Sears point of sale replacement in North America consisting of 2000 stores and thousands of suppliers as well as the chief architect for a digital asset management firm, Ancept.

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