Modernization Experience Report: Smalltalk Application Portfolio to Java

Six Smalltalk applications to Java. The company estimated it would take another ten years to complete the portfolio modernization and retire Smalltalk altogether. 

This experience report goes behind the scenes to expose the unique three-year collaboration between Synchrony and a German IT services provider for the financial sector.

This in-depth report is available for limited release to companies interested in understanding the details of modernizing large, legacy applications.

Experience Report Table of Contents:

• Company 
• Project background
• Modernization initiative
  • Challenges
  • Requirements
  • Vendor selection
  • Synchrony Solutions
    • Smalltalk Migration Technology (SMT)
    • Modernization platform
• Modernization engagement
  • Readiness phase
    • Application portfolio
    • Work breakdown
    • Team collaboration
    • Project timeline
  • Implementation phase
    • Splitting the work
    • Progress of parallel tracks
    • Progress of the entire project
    • Halfway point evaluation
    • Functional testing
    • Code quality
    • Integration testing
    • Final deliverable
  • Conclusions and take-a-ways
• Appendix
  • Codebase
  • Pipelines
  • Operations
  • KB and CL
  • Issues
  • Deliveries
  • Datapoints