Systematic IT Modernization: Strangling the Beast

 

It’s not about whether the business needs to deliver 10x faster — it’s about whether IT can step up to the business demands, when needed. It’s about making small improvements and fixing failures more quickly, resulting in more progress in less time. Those that are increasing their IT agility are those that are likely to succeed.

 

One of the best known strategies for incremental, systematic refactoring of legacy software is often referred to as strangulation or “strangling the beast” based on work done by Martin Fowler.