Legacy application modernisation is a much-discussed topic at the moment. It is an issue that concerns 90 per cent of mainframe users who are in search of a solution to their dependency on mainframes. Why is this an issue? What solutions are available on the market? What is the current situation today and what services can adesso transformer offer to replace legacy systems? Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to legacy application modernisation? I explore these questions in my blog post.

Dealing with data is becoming an indispensable core skill and one that is always needed when companies want to make decisions and answer new questions regarding organisation, processes, strategy, products and services. The organisation, processes and responsibilities across all organisational levels must revolve around data. In my blog post, I will present the topics that a company should focus on in this regard.

No Scrum values, no successful application. The Scrum Guide leaves us with many uncertainties. We have to find a solution ourselves using the values and framework. However, applying Scrum successfully depends on whether people are able to live out the five Scrum values. In my blog post, I will show you why this is important.

In part one of the blog post, my colleague Isabelle Meiller laid out how you can use marketing automation to acquire new customers. Maybe you are already seeing results with the first new order or purchase from one of your new customers. You now have to take the next step in order not to lose them. What can you do to ensure that your newly acquired customers remain loyal to your company or your brand and that they will continue to purchase or use the products and services you offer? I will show you how in part two of our blog post.

As soon as ‘agility’ becomes a topic within companies, the Scrum framework also enters the conversation. This framework is easy to understand and quick to implement, but difficult to put into practice. For success, we need a specific inner attitude. Behaving in a way that adds value and exemplifies the Scrum values builds trust. Our attitude of trust in the cause and people gives us the ability to shape our success.

In the IT space, sustainability sometimes has negative connotations. It is associated with higher costs and lower performance without any immediate returns. However, sustainable digital solutions have the potential to set your company apart from its competitors on the marketplace, open up new fields of business and help preserve the foundation of life and business for us all. You will find out why every company should look into green tech in my blog post.

In previous blog posts (see below), we provided the essential facts about agile software development. Agility can help us solve complex problems, especially when operationalisation is not done in a dogmatic way. Today, we will be looking at the interplay between agility and ambidexterity.

In my last blog post, I summarised why a company should have a mission statement, my understanding of it and how you can use key questions to develop such a mission statement. Now it is a matter of operationalising the mission – in other words, taking specific action without losing focus. This is where the objectives and key results (OKRs) come into play. I will describe what all this is about in my blog post.

Low-code is an intuitive, visual approach to modern software development that minimises the amount of effort needed for programming and speeds up the development process. But how can the potential of low-code be fully exploited and what role do citizen developers play in this context? We will answer these questions in our blog post.