Legacy Application Modernization: A Complete Guide - Mastering the Entire Process from Planning to Execution
Course Overview This comprehensive course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and best practices required to successfully modernize legacy applications. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, hands-on projects, and real-world examples, participants will gain a deep understanding of the entire modernization process, from planning to execution.
Course Objectives - Understand the need for legacy application modernization and its benefits
- Learn how to assess and prioritize legacy applications for modernization
- Develop a comprehensive modernization strategy and roadmap
- Understand the different modernization approaches and techniques
- Learn how to execute a modernization project, including planning, design, implementation, and testing
- Understand how to ensure quality, security, and compliance during modernization
- Learn how to manage change and minimize disruption to business operations
- Develop skills in using modernization tools and technologies
Course Outline Module 1: Introduction to Legacy Application Modernization
- Defining legacy applications and their challenges
- Understanding the need for modernization
- Benefits of modernization: cost savings, improved efficiency, enhanced customer experience
- Common modernization challenges and pitfalls
Module 2: Assessing Legacy Applications
- Identifying legacy applications for modernization
- Assessing application complexity, risk, and business value
- Prioritizing applications for modernization
- Creating an application inventory and assessment report
Module 3: Modernization Strategies and Roadmapping
- Understanding different modernization approaches: re-architecting, re-platforming, re-hosting, re-factoring
- Developing a modernization strategy and roadmap
- Identifying modernization goals, objectives, and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Creating a business case for modernization
Module 4: Modernization Techniques and Tools
- Re-architecting: microservices, containerization, serverless computing
- Re-platforming: migrating to cloud-native platforms
- Re-hosting: lift-and-shift migration to cloud infrastructure
- Re-factoring: code refactoring and optimization techniques
- Modernization tools and technologies: DevOps, CI/CD, automation
Module 5: Modernization Planning and Execution
- Creating a modernization project plan
- Defining project scope, timelines, and budget
- Identifying and managing project risks
- Executing modernization projects: design, implementation, testing, and deployment
Module 6: Quality, Security, and Compliance
- Ensuring quality during modernization: testing, validation, and verification
- Security considerations during modernization: threat modeling, vulnerability assessment
- Compliance requirements during modernization: regulatory, industry standards
- Implementing security and compliance controls
Module 7: Change Management and Organizational Readiness
- Understanding the impact of modernization on business operations
- Developing a change management plan
- Communicating modernization plans and progress to stakeholders
- Building organizational readiness for modernization
Module 8: Modernization Tools and Technologies
- DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Serverless computing: AWS Lambda, Azure Functions
- Cloud-native platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
- Modernization tools: automation, monitoring, logging
Module 9: Case Studies and Best Practices
- Real-world modernization case studies
- Best practices for modernization: lessons learned, success factors
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Modernization success stories
Module 10: Final Project and Course Wrap-up
- Participants work on a final project: developing a modernization plan for a legacy application
- Presenting final projects and receiving feedback
- Course wrap-up: key takeaways, next steps
Course Benefits - Comprehensive understanding of legacy application modernization
- Practical skills in modernization planning and execution
- Knowledge of modernization tools and technologies
- Certificate upon completion issued by The Art of Service
- Lifetime access to course materials
Course Features - Interactive and engaging course design
- Personalized learning experience
- Up-to-date and practical content
- Expert instructors with real-world experience
- Flexible learning: online, self-paced
- User-friendly and mobile-accessible course platform
- Community-driven: discussion forums, peer feedback
- Actionable insights and hands-on projects
- Bite-sized lessons and gamification
- Progress tracking and course completion certificate
Upon completing this course, participants will receive a certificate issued by The Art of Service, demonstrating their expertise in legacy application modernization.,
- Understand the need for legacy application modernization and its benefits
- Learn how to assess and prioritize legacy applications for modernization
- Develop a comprehensive modernization strategy and roadmap
- Understand the different modernization approaches and techniques
- Learn how to execute a modernization project, including planning, design, implementation, and testing
- Understand how to ensure quality, security, and compliance during modernization
- Learn how to manage change and minimize disruption to business operations
- Develop skills in using modernization tools and technologies
Course Outline Module 1: Introduction to Legacy Application Modernization
- Defining legacy applications and their challenges
- Understanding the need for modernization
- Benefits of modernization: cost savings, improved efficiency, enhanced customer experience
- Common modernization challenges and pitfalls
Module 2: Assessing Legacy Applications
- Identifying legacy applications for modernization
- Assessing application complexity, risk, and business value
- Prioritizing applications for modernization
- Creating an application inventory and assessment report
Module 3: Modernization Strategies and Roadmapping
- Understanding different modernization approaches: re-architecting, re-platforming, re-hosting, re-factoring
- Developing a modernization strategy and roadmap
- Identifying modernization goals, objectives, and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Creating a business case for modernization
Module 4: Modernization Techniques and Tools
- Re-architecting: microservices, containerization, serverless computing
- Re-platforming: migrating to cloud-native platforms
- Re-hosting: lift-and-shift migration to cloud infrastructure
- Re-factoring: code refactoring and optimization techniques
- Modernization tools and technologies: DevOps, CI/CD, automation
Module 5: Modernization Planning and Execution
- Creating a modernization project plan
- Defining project scope, timelines, and budget
- Identifying and managing project risks
- Executing modernization projects: design, implementation, testing, and deployment
Module 6: Quality, Security, and Compliance
- Ensuring quality during modernization: testing, validation, and verification
- Security considerations during modernization: threat modeling, vulnerability assessment
- Compliance requirements during modernization: regulatory, industry standards
- Implementing security and compliance controls
Module 7: Change Management and Organizational Readiness
- Understanding the impact of modernization on business operations
- Developing a change management plan
- Communicating modernization plans and progress to stakeholders
- Building organizational readiness for modernization
Module 8: Modernization Tools and Technologies
- DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Serverless computing: AWS Lambda, Azure Functions
- Cloud-native platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
- Modernization tools: automation, monitoring, logging
Module 9: Case Studies and Best Practices
- Real-world modernization case studies
- Best practices for modernization: lessons learned, success factors
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Modernization success stories
Module 10: Final Project and Course Wrap-up
- Participants work on a final project: developing a modernization plan for a legacy application
- Presenting final projects and receiving feedback
- Course wrap-up: key takeaways, next steps
Course Benefits - Comprehensive understanding of legacy application modernization
- Practical skills in modernization planning and execution
- Knowledge of modernization tools and technologies
- Certificate upon completion issued by The Art of Service
- Lifetime access to course materials
Course Features - Interactive and engaging course design
- Personalized learning experience
- Up-to-date and practical content
- Expert instructors with real-world experience
- Flexible learning: online, self-paced
- User-friendly and mobile-accessible course platform
- Community-driven: discussion forums, peer feedback
- Actionable insights and hands-on projects
- Bite-sized lessons and gamification
- Progress tracking and course completion certificate
Upon completing this course, participants will receive a certificate issued by The Art of Service, demonstrating their expertise in legacy application modernization.,
- Comprehensive understanding of legacy application modernization
- Practical skills in modernization planning and execution
- Knowledge of modernization tools and technologies
- Certificate upon completion issued by The Art of Service
- Lifetime access to course materials