For a good reason, the cloud, refactoring, and microservices are on everyone’s lips these days. They hold the promise of reinventing businesses altogether and streamlining operations to drive revenue, business innovation, growth, and resiliency.
The trouble is that IT has some idea, but probably not the whole picture, of where to start in breaking down monolithic applications and deploying them in the cloud in ways that transform the business. They also often work in silos within the company and do not have insight into all the strategic business plans. Even if your business is already on the path to modernization, and it likely is, the question is where the company is on the journey and how the plan is mapped out. When decisions and steps are taken without insights into workflows and processes or proper alignment with the business, the modernization projects become an “Eh, this feels like the right thing to do,” rather than, “These are the five projects we need to prioritize and act on urgently to drive the most value to the business.”