Measuring Enterprise Modernization

Data-Driven Modernization

Enterprises across Europe are undergoing modernization - a process that is crucial to maintaining competitiveness, ensuring security, and increasing efficiency. This is the glossy view of modernization. In reality this is a messy business with digging in old code, making migration plans and dealing with significant resistance within the organization. And this is to such an extent that it becomes difficult to ascertain whether modernization is effectively taking place, except for the lighthouse projects that are under your control. However, managing and tracking the progress of these programs can be achieved. To navigate this issue, we applied a data-driven approach that is measuring aspects of the transformation. Especially the cut-over from legacy applications to newly deployed applications is an interesting measurement.

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Quality Models Q42 & ISO25010

Architecture Quality

Quality Models help us to define quality criteria for software and architecture development. There are several different types out there that can be applied in the software and architecture development process.

Why do we need a quality model for architectures?

A quality model is a structured way to align priorities during the conception phase and development of a software system. There might be some aspects that can be negotiable, others not. For example, you can make compromises in quality categories such as #flexibility, while making no compromises in aspects of #security. This quality guidelines help with challenging your own decisions and approaches and allow a reality check. “Do we actually need redundancy in this part of the architecture?”

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