DocumentCode
882541
Title
Cash cow in the tar pit: reengineering a legacy system
Author
Adolph, W. Stephena
Author_Institution
British Columbia Inst. of Technol., Burnaby, BC, Canada
Volume
13
Issue
3
fYear
1996
fDate
5/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
41
Lastpage
47
Abstract
Many old systems are still with us and burden us with baggage, but replacing them, particularly when they are legacy systems, is not as straightforward as it seems. The author imparts some of the lessons learned on a legacy-replacement project
Keywords
business data processing; software development management; software maintenance; systems re-engineering; business; legacy system; legacy-replacement project; software development projects; software maintenance; systems reengineering; Costs; Hardware; Manufacturing; Project management; Rail transportation; Risk management; Software engineering; Software performance; Software systems; Software tools;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/52.493019
Filename
493019
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