The Agile Surgery events have turned into a very popular series and have been the home of three other great events over the last 18 months. So, for this year’s virtual Leeds Digital Festival the Leeds Delivery Management, Business Analysis and Agile Capabilities came together to put on another one. This time tackling the conundrum of transforming legacy systems using an Agile approach.
Legacy Systems were often designed some time ago and on occasions can be complex to change. Consequently, the idea of fiddling with them can scare the hell out of companies and clients. Yet at the same time, they appreciate there are many advantages to addressing that legacy system. Quite the conundrum! Luckily, those are the problems we thrive on and so felt very well placed to offer some advice on.
The talk was introduced some of the most popular reasons for wanting to change a legacy solution – many of which you’ll be familiar with!
As an ‘Agile’ Surgery, we then explained the advantages of a well-stocked Agile toolkit and how to apply it here. An important point to get across was that no transformation, let alone legacy transformation is the same. There is no single ‘right’ Agile approach – it always depends. To emphasise this our speakers then introduced two case studies which utilised two different approaches.