Leave a better legacy

In any commercial environment every enterprise decision creates unseen technical debt. How can you deliver technological value safely and in line with present process against years of legacy?
This page is a collation of learnings in researching, developing and delivering software cloud migration through people, process and technology. We hope it assists you in earning your organisation out of this debt.

9 Steps to Migrating to Cloud Systems:
The Legacy Modernisation Manual
There is a common perception that migrating a legacy system to the cloud is a risky and costly exercise.
While this can certainly be true when not done correctly, in our experience there is a process that can be followed to migrate to the cloud on time and on budget.
This manual will address some inescapable truths about migrating legacy systems, how to modernise small and large systems and how it’s helped a Government Department execute on its digital transformation roadmap.
The Continuous Modernisation Playbook

This book looks at the strategies and tactics you can use to modernise your legacy system and move towards a mode of continuous modernisation.
‘Bots that Code’ is packed with strategies that helped Police NSW modernise 7 legacy applications.
Theory is great, but what’s the point if you can’t actually use it in practice.
This book doesn’t take you down the path of theoretical unknowns.
In fact, the strategies we discuss have been used by some of Australia’s largest organisations.
The Department of Defence, Police NSW and many others have implemented these strategies to modernise their legacy systems.
We answer the #1 question every CTO should be asking. How do you avoid the legacy trap?
Other Legacy Modernisation Case Studies
Department of Defence

The Department of Defence is one the largest Government agencies in Australia. WorkingMouse helped improve visibility across their procurement spending by consolidating a number of disparate systems into a centralised application.
Police New South Wales

The NSW Police Force is one of the largest police organisations in the English speaking world. To help the Police NSW on their digital transformation journey, WorkingMouse modernised some of their current legacy systems.
Technology insights Webinar:
‘Low-code: The good, the bad and the ugly’
Low-code has ignited the enterprise world on fire and attracted a lot of attention to Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). It has been able to empower citizen developers to build apps with minimal input from professional software developers.
While we enjoy the attention to MDE, it stops short of fulfilling the vision of how far MDE can go. Like driving a car around in 1st gear, there are ways we can shift gears and take the high road and elevate innovation even further.
This keynote looks at how low-code is only just the beginning and how other technologies have the power to unlock a door to future success.

Speaker Bio

Dr Eban Escott received his Doctorate from UQ (2013) in Model-Driven Engineering and his Masters from QUT (2004) in Artificial Intelligence. He is an advocate of using models as first class artefacts in software engineering and creating not just technologies, but methodologies that enhance the quality of life for software engineers.
Key Insights
- Model engineer audience rate low code 4.2 our of 5 as ‘Better than Sliced Bread’
- “Access to developers is a bigger threat to success than access to capital” Stripe Report, 2021
- Despite being a $13.8 Billion Segment (Garner, 2021) - Low code is only the first gear of unlocking success.
- Low code vendors are forced to obfuscate code level control by abstraction to satisfy the many.
- Meta-model rates as top option to gain control.
- Evolution of a Meta-Model bot and how it delivers and goes beyond the 1st gear of low code.
- Dev-Ops and Model Driven development.
Blog series: Cloud Migration

How the Use of Legacy Systems Impacts Your Customers’ Experience
By Alice Spies - 01 February 2022

Observations and Learnings From a Cloud Modernisation Scope
By David Burkett - 14 January 2022

How Can IT Teams Prepare For Workplace Modernisation?
By Shivam Arora - 07 January 2022

How to rescue your software application
By Josh Beatty - 21 August 2020