System assessment
Review code, versions, accounts, integrations and known issues. Distinguish confirmed findings from areas that need more investigation.
Services
Take the next step without losing what already works.
An older application may still be doing an important job. Before replacing it, we examine the code, dependencies and business workflow so you can choose what to maintain, improve or rebuild.
Discuss your project ↗
Understand the system before changing it.
From the existing application to a plan you can test and roll back.
Inspect the system
Review code, data, accounts and the people who know the workflow. Separate confirmed findings from unknowns.
Prepare recovery
Check backups and restore procedures. Prepare a test environment before changing what users depend on.
Change in stages
Agree reviewable increments, assess impact and identify who approves production changes.
Maintain continuity
Hand over documentation and procedures, with a clear boundary between maintenance and additional work.
Is this the right service for your team?
For organizations with an application that still matters but has limited documentation, an outgoing supplier, aging dependencies or changes that are becoming difficult to release safely.
Scope and deliverables to agree together
Takeover preparation
Agree access, responsibilities, backup and restore checks, and a safe place to test changes before touching production.
Maintenance and upgrades
Prioritize defects and dependency upgrades. Break modernization into changes that can be reviewed and accepted.
Documentation and continuity
Prepare runbooks and handover information. Agree recurring maintenance separately from additional development.
The proposal defines the scope and acceptance criteria for your project before work begins.
From the first conversation to delivery
Inspect what exists
Start with the application, data, infrastructure and people who know the work.
Prepare a safe change
Review backups, recovery and a test environment.
Improve in stages
Agree priorities, acceptance checks and rollback conditions.
Keep knowledge available
Document decisions and responsibilities for ongoing support.
What affects cost and timing?
Code quality, supported versions, test coverage, access, documentation and third-party dependencies determine the work. An initial assessment helps avoid estimating unknown repairs as if they were routine maintenance.
What should you prepare?
Bring the stack and versions if known, a list of recurring problems, ownership of repositories and hosting accounts, and the most important business workflows. You do not need every document ready to begin.
Which direction makes sense for the existing system?
Assess the system and business need
The foundation still fits
Maintain
Fix risks, add documentation and tests, and make the existing system easier to support.
Some parts hold you back
Modernize in stages
Separate the changes, define connections to the existing system and verify each stage.
The business need has changed
Rebuild
Compare long-term costs and plan data migration and launch before committing to a replacement.
Questions before you start
Must we rebuild the entire application?
No. Maintaining the current application or changing selected components may be a better fit. We compare options against the business need and the condition of the system.
Can you take over from another supplier?
We first check ownership, access, documentation and contractual restrictions. A structured handover makes responsibilities and unknowns visible.
What if documentation is missing?
We can start with an assessment of the available code and environment. Investigation and documentation need to be included in the scope.
Related experience
Daily operations
Keep it running
The servers, databases and platform the customer uses to do their work.
System improvements
Make needed changes
Repairs and technology changes delivered in the relevant project stages.
Continuity
Make it supportable
The scope, responsibilities and information a team needs to take over.
Maintaining a multi-site content platform while infrastructure and application improvements continue in separate stages.
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