The Contrator Silo Problem

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The Contractor Silo Problem
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Lets suppose that you have a large system youd
like to redo for the web. You could get it
translated, but you dont want the likely
performance and maintainability problems
associated with wholesale line-by-line
translation. In fact, you dont even want the new
system to look like the old one you want slick
graphics, customized and stylish menus,
dropdowns, radio buttons the works. In other
words, you want to rewrite it. If the system is
big, you might at first consider giving it to a
big integrator to redo. The first problem with
that approach is that nobody has 80 highly
productive developers just sitting there waiting
to start your legacy modernization project. Firms
may have a few, but not enough good ones.
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Another approach is to divide the work and give
it to 3 or 4 or 5 firms. Not a bad idea, because
they will compete, and you wont have the
entrenched contractor problem that we hear so
much about. Theres only one difficulty how do
you get them to write the code in a consistent
style, so that it all fits together and looks
like one team wrote it? Because if not, you will
get 3 or 4 or 5 silo implementations, with the
interoperability and maintenance problems that go
along with it.
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You cant solve this problem with paper
architecture, but you can solve it by
implementing architecture for the entire system
and directing the contractors to use common code
and put their unique business logic on one place.
Thats what ResQSoft(r) Engineer gives you you
can have all the routine code written
automatically, including the architectural code
for the entire application, and then the
contractors can fit their implementations into
the correct spots. After all, getting rid of the
silo implementations is one of the main reasons
for legacy modernization in the first place.
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Engineer gives you a best practice, MVC style
architecture in Java or .NET not on paper, but
in working code. Thats the only way to tie it
all together! Image Source arahant Posted by
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