Dependency Wheel Diagrams

Dependency Wheel Diagrams for Enterprise Application Portfolios

IN-COM October 1, 2026 , , , , ,

The architecture review board has a network graph. It was built from the CMDB eighteen months ago, manually updated three...

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Big Bang vs. Incremental Modernization

Big Bang vs. Incremental Modernization: A Decision Framework

IN-COM September 28, 2026 , , , , , ,

Every consultant will tell you incremental is safer. They are right, and they are also telling you what is always...

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Dual-Run Strategies for Legacy Systems

Dual-Run Strategies: Running Legacy and Modern Systems in Parallel

IN-COM September 23, 2026 , , , , ,

61% 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

Modernization Failure Post-Mortems: Common Root Causes

IN-COM September 21, 2026 , , , , ,

Between 70 and 79 percent of legacy modernization projects fail to meet their stated goals. That statistic appears in every...

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GitOps for Mainframe

GitOps for Mainframe: Bringing Modern Version Control to z/OS

IN-COM September 16, 2026 , , ,

The new developer joins the mainframe team. She has spent five years writing Java microservices with Git, GitHub, pull requests,...

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Diagnosing Slow CI at Enterprise Scale

Build Pipeline Bottlenecks: Diagnosing Slow CI at Enterprise Scale

IN-COM September 15, 2026 , , , ,

A developer at a large financial institution submits a pull request. The CI pipeline starts. Forty-seven minutes later, if the...

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