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Mastering Technology Modernization: 6 Steps For Building Your Road Map

CIO, Thursday, October 31st, 2024

Technical debt and legacy systems have long plagued CIOs. Now, with innovation cycles shortening, developing a road map to modernization is even more important. This six-step process simplifies triage of legacy tech and helps eliminate barriers to speed and agility.

During my career I have developed a few mottos. For example, my change management motto is, 'Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.' Thus, to help humans embrace the better, I need to make the better both familiar and comfortable.

To recognize technical debt, my smart aleck motto is, 'Technical debt is something I did more than five years ago or something that someone else did more than six months ago.'

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