Software Health Check

Your starting position: Where are you right now? We often encounter customers who are uncertain about the exact status of their IT projects or even their entire landscape. In order to be able to take targeted action, it is crucial to know exactly what the current status of your software is. Only those who have a clear picture of the current status can take the right steps to solve problems, eliminate bottlenecks and implement forward-looking improvements.

Where do you locate your IT system? Together, we assess your application landscape, AWS environment, and engineering practices to identify opportunities for improvement and create a roadmap that balances business value, technical sustainability, and cloud economics.

Our approach As specialists in software modernization and cloud transformation, we provide a structured Software Health Check that delivers actionable insights within just three weeks.

Leveraging proven methodologies such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), and automated analysis tools, we examine architecture, code quality, security, operations, reliability, performance efficiency, sustainability, and cost optimization.

To ensure an efficient and time-effective engagement, we divide the Software Health Check into four phases:

1. Prepare: During the preparation phase, we plan the entire process of the software health check. Binding deadlines and time frames are set at this stage so that you know exactly how much time you and your employees need to plan and when the health check will be completed. During the preparation phase, we also formulate your key questions together and record the identified goals.

2. Understanding: In the understanding phase we bring together all relevant stakeholders in a kick‑off and five consecutive workshops to conduct an in‑depth as‑is analysis of architecture, code and development processes using tools such as our open‑source CodeCharta, identify real software hotspots and risks through combined metrics, and jointly evaluate the findings with your development and architecture teams.

3. Evaluate: This leads to the third phase: evaluating the system. Together, we identify the strengths and weaknesses of the software and derive clear recommendations for action. At the end of the evaluation phase of the health check, we examine which of the following options represents the optimal solution: refurbishment of the existing system, a completely new system or the use of a commercially available off-the-shelf product.

4. Act: In the final phase, we develop specific packages of measures, prioritize them and arrange the included measures in a chronological and logical order - the modernization roadmap. This is a valuable tool for planning the route from the current location to achievable goals. In addition to the purely technical modernization, these result from the future requirements of the specialist departments, which will have to be fulfilled in parallel.