Discovery phase of an application transformation project

The following activities apply to the discovery phase of an application transformation project.

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Procedure

  • Analyze the current business climate that drives the enterprise to make changes to existing processes and IT systems.
  • Evaluate how existing applications and their interfaces work currently to service the business, with the goal of identifying unnecessary manual intervention and problems.
  • Understand in detail the applications and systems to be transformed.