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How the FCC CIO Plans To Modernize 207 Legacy IT Systems
Lemeowski writes in with this interview of FCC CIO David Bray. "When David Bray took over as CIO of the FCC last year, he found the agency saddled with 207 legacy systems, which is about one system for every eight employees in the 1,750-person agency. Bray, who is one of the youngest CIOs across the federal government, shares his plan for updating those systems to a cloud-based, common data platform, that's "ideally open source." In this interview, Bray shares the challenges the FCC faces as it upgrades its systems, including keeping up morale and finding a way to fit longtime employees into his modernization strategy."
Youth is not a real asset here. He is going to destroy systems with years of business logic in them and try to replace all that work in a short period of time. Good luck with that.
Just another half bright kid who doesn't know what he has just proposed.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Yeah, my thinking when someone talks about modernizing legacy systems is usually ... "Have you ever actually been on a project to do this?"
In my personal experience, the older the legacy system, and the more embedded it is in your business ... the harder it is to replace.
I've been on a few projects trying to replace 25-40 year old computer systems. And pretty much all of them have been epic failures because people woefully underestimate how much work is involved, and don't fully appreciate all of the things they haven't considered until it's so far into the process to be too late to fix.
It's an admirable goal. but usually proves far more complex than the people championing it realize.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.