CHAPTER 2
Accepting the Multispeed Reality (for Now)
If everything is important, then nothing is.
—Anonymous
Clients I work with often have a thousand or more applications in their portfolio. Clearly, we cannot make changes to all of them at the same time. This chapter looks at how to navigate the desire for innovative new systems and the existing web of legacy applications. We will identify minimum viable clusters of applications to start your transformation and perform an application portfolio analysis to support this.
One of the trends in the industry that has caused the increase in interest in Agile and DevOps practices was the arrival of internet natives, as I mentioned in the introduction. Those companies have the advantage that their applications ...
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