We help you develop and build the systems that unleash product teams to deliver value as they want. Not if they can. Freedom for product teams is a system they enjoy using to delight customers – a contemporary, cloud-based product platform with evolutionary, scalable architecture, security, performance and resilience, and an API ecosystem for digital partners. Organisations understand this and invest heavily to transform their legacy systems. So why do so many of them struggle?

We see three patterns for successful technology transformation. Organisations understand the ‘big picture’ role for technology, focus on finding value rather than focus on the tech itself, and commit to tackling the underlying factors that cause intractable problems.

It’s this last pattern that creates the most significant hurdles for any transformation journey. Organisations may tend to adopt an expedient approach to solving problems, rather than tackling the underlying factors. It’s understandable because it’s so challenging to commit to tackling things that appear so complicated.

These underlying factors, which we call ‘Complex Technology Constraints’ (CTCs), are the tangles in the net that stop you going fishing – from finding and delivering value. Every organisation has software systems that suffer to a greater or lesser degree from:

• Legacy Systems – the value of data & business rules are frozen by prior workarounds
• The Onion – layers & layers of architecture from previous 'civilisations'
• The CIO/CTO/CDO Paradox – competition for resources has created suboptimal design & delivery of tech
• Lack of Visibility – the system has become so complex you can’t see into it
• System Evolution – the prior use of rigid technologies & architecture has become just another heritage system

Loosening these Complex Technology Constraints untangles the net to deliver value for the business

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The risk of trying another ‘band-aid’ approach to work around these constraints has become too high. Truly uplifting an organisation’s technology-ability is really about having the courage to tackle them head on. There’s a way!

It’s not about big-bang, rip-and-replace initiatives. Instead, we transition organisations to a contemporary future system by taking a step-by-step, continuous modernisation approach that aligns to business priorities.

Each step identifies one high-value service or domain to focus effort – we think of this as ‘finding the fastest path to value’. Our technical leads, developers and architects work side-by-side with teams to loosen the constraints affecting that priority just enough to extract it. Together we transition the service or domain to a product platform the product team will love. Find out how…