A Practical, Start-to-Finish Approach to Managing, Developing, and Transforming Legacy IT Systems For each analyst executives, managers, architects, program leaders, project leaders, and leading IT ? Richard and Kevin introduce us to the reality that is often overlooked in our industry:? Problems developed legacy systems, a domain which they called Brownfield development.?? Richard and Kevin bring us to the table with knife and fork and other tools, and shows you how to eat this elephant in the room.? Grady Booch, IBM Fellow, co-creator of UML Most organizations? in the 21st century has, the existing landscape of complex systems. This book describes a new approach to the development of future systems: a structured approach that recognizes the challenges Brownfield? development, based on engineering principles, and supported by appropriate tools.? Chris Winter, Ceng FIET FBCS CITP, IBM Fellow, Member IBM Academy of Technology Most conventional approaches to IT development assume that you build the system back? entirely new. Richard Hopkins and Kevin Jenkins explain why accumulated business and IT complexity is the root cause of large-scale project failure and show how to overcome the complexity of the elephant one bite at a time.?? This book will help you re new flexibility and agility into your IT environment to integrate more effectively with partners? preparing for the show business challenges? System complexity: understand it, and exploit it Transcend illusion entertaining your high-level architecture diagram How conventional development techniques actually make things worse Why the traditional decomposition and abstraction don - t? Work and what should be done not You re a reliable IT accordance with your business priorities New ways to understand, communicate, visualize, collaborate, and solve complex IT problems Cut the elephant into the size, one step at a time Mastering all the four phases of the Brownfield project: survey, engineer, accept, and deploy