Software Development Reengineering — An Experience Report

Abstract

Decisions regarding the disposition of an existing multilingual environments can have an enormous effect on the operations, even survival, of commercial and government organizations. Many organizations are grappling with trade-offs of older development tools and moving into more modern and efficient programming languages as advertised, while trying to leverage production capabilities and to reduce cost. In some cases, product reliability is not an important factor in decision making! Lexical is facing these difficult decisions and the clock is ticking. In an effort of searching for a programming language that fits into our development requirement, the company successfully addressed many of the hard issues facing commercial executives and managers today. This paper provides valuable insights and model for actions, through Lexical’s experience, which can help making better decisions and formulate strategies in transition management. Many factors contribute to the success and survival of the company during transition, one of them is to assess learning curves of many different individuals.