Legacy Teams
Legacy teams don’t need cake: they need a seat at the table. With modernization efforts, new systems often get the spotlight and celebrating those wins is important. But beware the “cake in the break area” trap. If your legacy support team’s main interaction with your modernization effort is a leftover piece of cake, you’ve fallen into that trap. Legacy engineers keep the present running while the future is still being built. They bring deep institutional knowledge, production support experience, and insight into why systems were built the way they were, knowledge earned through past rewrites, migrations, and upgrades. ...