The Legacy Modernization Playbook (Without the Big-Bang Risk)
How to retire a legacy estate safely using strangler-fig refactors, capability-led roadmaps, and zero-downtime cutovers — instead of a 24-month rewrite gamble.
Legacy modernizationArchitectureRisk
What's inside
- 1Why big-bang rewrites still fail in 2026
- 2Mapping capabilities, not modules: the seam-finding workshop
- 3Strangler-fig in practice: routing, data parity, and dual-write
- 4Zero-downtime cutover patterns for revenue-critical systems
- 5Sequencing the roadmap so each release pays for the next
Cloud Migration Readiness: A 6-R Framework That Actually Holds Up
An opinionated take on the 6-Rs (rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain) — plus the FinOps guardrails to keep your cloud bill honest after cutover.
Cloud migrationAzureAWSFinOps
What's inside
- 1Why most '6-R' decisions get made on the wrong axis
- 2Landing zones, IaC, and Day-2 operations from week one
- 3Choosing replatform vs. refactor by workload economics
- 4FinOps guardrails: budgets, anomaly detection, and unit cost
- 5The rehearsal cutover: how we de-risk the real one
Workflow Automation ROI: How to Pick Wins in the First 90 Days
A field-tested scoring rubric for choosing automation candidates — frequency, exception rate, system access, and the human cost of getting it wrong.
AutomationRPAAI agentsOperations
What's inside
- 1The four signals of a great automation candidate
- 2Why rule-based RPA isn't dead (and where AI agents earn their keep)
- 3Designing the human-in-the-loop surface from day one
- 4Measuring real ROI: handled volume × cycle time × error rate
- 5Scaling from one win to a portfolio without a CoE bureaucracy
Stop Reorging. Start Building Platform Teams That Stick.
Why most digital operating model rollouts stall — and the platform-team patterns (Team Topologies, IDPs, golden paths) that survive the next executive change.
Operating modelPlatform engineeringDevEx
What's inside
- 1The reorg trap: structure without flow doesn't ship faster
- 2Stream-aligned, platform, enabling, complicated-subsystem teams
- 3Internal developer platforms (IDPs) as a product, not a project
- 4Golden paths: paved roads beat 47 wikis every time
- 5Funding the platform: showback, chargeback, or absorbed
AI-First Transformation: Designing Workflows With Intelligence In
The difference between adding AI to a workflow and redesigning the workflow around AI — with concrete patterns from insurance, logistics, and retail.
AITransformationOperating model
What's inside
- 1Why bolting AI onto legacy workflows hits a 30% ceiling
- 2Three workflow archetypes that change with AI in the loop
- 3Decision rights: when AI recommends, when AI decides
- 4Governance, audit trail, and the override path
- 5From lighthouse to portfolio: scaling the second use case
