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Application Assessment

The Pragmatic checklist to assess an application

When you plan to modernize an application, there are several questions to ask yourself/your customer to apprehend when the modernization would bring value.

This is a draft of potential questions you should take into consideration when doing an assessment.

The assessment

Available in the following formats:

• Markdown
• Excel
• CSV

How to contribute

You just need to edit the source file

How to locally generate files

If you want to see the final result locally and generate CSV & Excel files, follow this guide

Install

1. Make sure you are using the Python version specified in the .python-version file (or use pyenv for the automation)
2. Run make install

Build

1. Run make build

Test the Python code

1. Run make py-test

Content

Here are the categories to assess

Hardware Core Infra

• Virtualization
• Number of Servers for App hosting (except DB)
• CPU
• Memory
• Disks
• App Location Hosting
• OS
• Container Ready
• Other / Misc

Network

• Network / Cloud virtual Network / Landing Zone
• Firewall, Load Balancer
• Private or public Internet Endpoints
• Other / Misc

Infrastructure

• Identity Management for Internal users
• Identity Management for External users
• DNS
• Certificates
• Infra Monitoring
• Backup
• Other / Misc

Data & AI

• RDBMS / NoSQL (Software vendor)
• Number of Servers
• SOA (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQ Series)
• File Server (size)
• Cache
• Data Migration
• Lambda Architecture
• Analytics
• AI
• Other / Misc

Software Specifications

• Programming Language (Front, Middle, Back, Mobile)
• Software Stack (MEAN, MERN, LAMP...)
• Monolith / Micro-Services
• Libraries, SDK, Runtimes
• Dependency on on-premises IS
• Dependency on external solutions or services (SaaS)
• OSS Dependencies
• 3rd party components
• libraries (+ associated Licensing model)
• Other / Misc

Software Services

• DevOps / DevSecOps
• API Management
• Application Performance Monitoring
• Service Registry / Mesh

Metrics

• #Total Users
• #Simultaneous users
• #RPS (Request per second)
• DB Size
• DB Increase
• Transactions / RPS
• Number of Messages, calls, requests/days/month/year
• Other / Misc

Project Management

• Software methodology (DevOps, Agile, CMMI, SAFE…)
• Software Delivery model (N/A, online/SaaS, ISV Setup…)
• Expected release cycles (i.e. updates frequency)
• Update Management (continuous/online, disconnected…)
• Project Documentation (diagrams, technical specs…)Describes here the shared files
• Who builds the app?
• Who runs the app?
• Maintenance Ops / Operating Model
• Skilling Plan
• Other / Misc