The Rewrite Fantasy: Modernising Platforms Without Starting Again
Somewhere in the second or third meeting with a new client, a particular slide tends to appear. It shows the current platform on the left, drawn in a slightly apologetic grey, and the target state on the right in confident colour, with an arrow between them. The arrow is where the money goes, and the plan for the arrow is usually some version of the same idea: we will build the new thing alongside the old thing, and when the new thing is ready, we will switch....