Tackling Legacy technology Challenges

Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, 22nd September; 8am - 11am

September 8, 2010 (MMD Newswire) -- In the fast-paced world of software technology, yesterday's state-of-the-art system is quite probably today's legacy system. With the emergence of SaaS, social media, mobile and open interfaces, the demands being placed on legacy systems are just too great to support the rapid rollout of relevant new features to market. In addition, the rise of nimble and disruptive web start-ups who go to market unencumbered by past successes are creating real competitive threats as they rapidly catch up and then exceed the functional richness and responsiveness of established players.

The challenge for established players is how to remediate legacy systems quickly without investing in a massive and risky 'big-bang' re-platforming. ThoughtWorks works with many companies facing this situation, and has developed innovative techniques that increase the speed and lower the risk of re-platforming for the future.

This session will provide insight on:
- Evolving your architecture safely and incrementally
- Using visualization techniques to identify risky areas of your code-base
- Test strategies that minimize the risk of changing 'unknown' areas of the system
- Release planning approaches that maximize market impact
- How to make the business case for a successful platform migration
- How to identify technical debt, and strategies to avoid introducing it

Schedule
08:00 | Registration & Breakfast
09:00 | Presentations
10:00 | Q&A

Who should attend
CIO, CTO, VP Product Development, Product Manager, CMO, VP Engineering.

You will find these sessions useful if:
- You're frustrated with a declining pace of getting features to market
- You're demoralized from wrestling with messy systems to get mediocre results
- You're worried that your investment in re-platforming might not deliver
- Your applications are struggling to meet the performance demands of your new mobile and social strategies

For Registration and more information, please visit www.thoughtworks.com/creakyplatform