Modernization Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
When it’s time for your business to go through the modernization process, there are some common mistakes that you need to avoid. These mistakes will not only provide setbacks, but will make your systems more fragile. In turn the mistakes tally up extra expenses to fix the problems, and can result in lost revenue and potentially lost customers.

One of the biggest mistakes in modernization is not giving the process proper attention and focus. The person or people you’ve hired to do the job but don’t finish it, or they decide to do one system at a time and piece meal, maybe it’s even a side project. Not focusing resources an modernizing one system at a time will result in your business being in a constant state of modernization because once you finish with the last system, the first system that was modernized is no longer current and needs to be modernized again. The result is a never-ending cycle of constantly upgrading systems, which ends up being costly and adds fragility. Ensuring that modernization occurs across all systems simultaneously or in a dedicated amount of time, and that the job is completed, is a big factor in the success of the modernization process.

Another mistake is approaching modernization with a lack of expertise around the new and old systems. A non-expert might try to adjust the code base in one place, but lack understanding and actually end up making the system more fragile in another. It’s common for coding languages to be updated and certain functions be deprecated for security, which in turn means the code base needs to be updated to work. But if the person doing the modernization doesn’t know or understand why the changes are necessary, then anything they do to adjust the code could make the system more fragile. They could even reopen the same security issues by using the same methods while side stepping the security fix using different functions, which is worse because now you are vulnerable and don’t know it.

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