Legacy System Assessment: Deciding What Deserves to Survive

Platform obsolescence, key-person dependency, security exposure, and run-cost including the workaround labor — the burning-platform score that ranks urgency.

Per-system verdicts with costs and order-of-operations — the assessment is fixed-fee, and its deck survives contact with your board.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.