Why this exists
Replacement projects fail more often than they succeed, and the reason is rarely the technology. The logic that actually runs your business is spread across the system, the spreadsheets beside it, and the people who know which is which. A migration has to find all three at once, on a date agreed months earlier, while the plant keeps shipping. Building around it removes the deadline, and the risk goes with it.
The work
What we do
- Map what the current system covers and, more usefully, what it doesn't
- Read from it without writing to it, so nothing we build can disturb it
- Build the missing capability alongside, where it can be used immediately
- Leave the original running until keeping it costs more than replacing it
Deliverables
What you get
- The gaps closed, without a migration
- A clear picture of what your current system actually does
- The option to retire it later, on your schedule rather than ours
Edges
Where it stops
What we don't touch
The running system. Read-only at source, additive by design, and removable without trace.
Done when
the gap you started with is closed and the original system is still running, untouched.
Next step
Start with discovery.
Whether this is the right piece of work is exactly what discovery answers.