Ripple Effect Analysis: Tracing a One-Line Change Through a Codebase
IN-COM October 7, 2026 Code Review, Compliance, Impact Analysis, Legacy SystemsThe commit message said “extend customer balance field precision.” The change was one line in a COBOL copybook: PIC S9(9)V99...
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Entity Relationship Diagrams from Legacy Database Schemas
IN-COM October 5, 2026 Data, Impact Analysis, Industries, Legacy SystemsConnect SchemaSpy to a modern PostgreSQL database and it produces a complete ERD in minutes: every table, every column, every...
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Dependency Wheel Diagrams for Enterprise Application Portfolios
IN-COM October 1, 2026 Application Modernization, Applications, Compliance, Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis Software, Legacy SystemsThe architecture review board has a network graph. It was built from the CMDB eighteen months ago, manually updated three...
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Dual-Run Strategies: Running Legacy and Modern Systems in Parallel
IN-COM September 23, 2026 Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis, Industries, Information Technology, Legacy Systems, Refactoring61% of migration projects exceed planned timelines by 40 to 100%. The most common cause is not technical complexity. It...
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Modernization Failure Post-Mortems: Common Root Causes
IN-COM September 21, 2026 Application Modernization, Data Modernization, Enterprise Modernization, Information Technology, Legacy Systems, Tech TalkBetween 70 and 79 percent of legacy modernization projects fail to meet their stated goals. That statistic appears in every...
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Build Pipeline Bottlenecks: Diagnosing Slow CI at Enterprise Scale
IN-COM September 15, 2026 Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis, Industries, Legacy Systems, RefactoringA developer at a large financial institution submits a pull request. The CI pipeline starts. Forty-seven minutes later, if the...
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