Chapter 14. System Preparation
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. The reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. | ||
| --Francis Bacon, Novum Organum | ||
System preparation is an optional, potentially beneficial, but often risky step that occurs before architectural transformation. In system preparation, we try to evolve the legacy system to a point where it will be much easier to perform the desired architectural transformation. The benefit ...
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