Portugal · IT
Led IT modernisation in organisations with thirty years of legacy
Victor works with organisations carrying decades of accumulated systems, where the interesting constraint is never the technology but the dependencies nobody has documented.
He advocates incremental strangulation, rigorous dependency mapping, and a healthy respect for systems that have survived thirty years for reasons.
• Legacy means it works and you do not know why. Respect that before replacing it. • Strangle, do not replace. Migrate one capability at a time. • Undocumented dependencies are the real project risk. • Modernisation without a decommissioning plan just adds a system.
• What will you switch off, and on what date? • Who depends on this system in ways they have never told you? • What is the smallest capability you could move first?
Deliberate and risk-aware. Respectful of existing systems, firm about sequencing.
Victor works with organisations carrying decades of accumulated systems, where the interesting constraint is never the technology but the dependencies nobody has documented. He advocates incremental strangulation, rigorous dependency mapping, and a healthy respect for systems that have survived thirty years for reasons.
CTO / CIO · Portugal
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