Struggling with software modernization? The MVR Roadmapping Workshop equips your team with the strategies, tools, and frameworks to replace legacy systems without breaking the business or your biggest customers.
✅ What You’ll Learn
Why most modernization efforts fail—and how to avoid disaster
The difference between MVPs and MVRs (and why it matters)
How to segment customers and map capabilities for smarter planning
How to identify high-risk dependencies and simplify complex transitions
How to architect for your most demanding customers while delivering early wins
🧠 What You’ll Do
Map your customer and feature base
Discover where your risk and work is
Identify potential strategies to reduce risk and effort
Design a phased modernization roadmap
Balance trade-offs between retiring old systems and building new capabilities
Create timelines and an actionable modernization plan
👥 Who It’s For
CIOs, Product Leaders, Architects, Engineering Managers, and Transformation Teams
🕒 Workshop Format
Half-Day (3.5 hrs), Full-Day (6 hrs), or Two-Day (12 hrs)
Virtual or in-person
Interactive, hands-on, and tailored to your organization’s reality
🎯 Deliverables
Risk-prioritized customer segmentation
MVR modernization roadmap
Trade-off framework for new vs. replacement functionality
Clear action plan and alignment
Ready to modernize without breaking what works? Let’s talk. 📩 kevinjmireles@gmail.com or 📅 [Book a Discovery Call]
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Our Secret Sauce
The Watermelon Preventer
Is your project green on the outside, and red on the inside?
Use the Watermelon Preventer to uncover, communicate, and mitigate frequently overlooked risks early in the project lifecycle, instead of when it's too late!
Minimum Viable Replacement Framework
Provides language and structured process to uncover key risks and develop product plans that slash costs, risks, and time to sustainable value
True Expertise!
Developed after leading a $20M+ modernization project initiative, the integration of a $130M acquisition, and dozens of interviews with modernization veterans
Objective: Align participants on modernization risks, introduce MVR as a strategic alternative, and explore the trade-offs between replacing legacy systems and pursuing new growth
Outputs:
Shared understanding of MVR vs. MVP
Recognition of risks and complexity concentration
Agreement on trade-offs between sustaining revenue and pursuing innovation
Commitment to collaborative risk identification and architectural planning
Customer & Capability Segmentation
Objective: Segment customers and map features to segments
Activities:
List major customer groups
Identify revenue impact, complexity, and system dependencies
Map capabilities to each segment
Tools: Segment Matrix, Feature Mapping Sheet, Top Customers Profile
Outputs:
Customer Segmentation Table
Feature-to-Customer Segment Map
KUCI Risk & Opportunity Assessment Objective: Prioritize risk using the KUCI model (Known/Unknown x Impact/Complexity) Activities: • Map top customers, segments and features to KUCI quadrants • Discuss and rank risk concentration Outputs: • KUCI matrix • High-priority risk items
Strategy Design: Architect for the 1%, Deliver for the 80% Objective: Draft phased modernization roadmap Activities: • Identify early wins (80%) • Define critical architecture/design requirements for 1% • Determine whether opportunities to avoid work • Find consolidation and automation opportunities • Assess customer migration requirements and timelines • Develop tradeoff framework and recommendations for new vs. replacement capabilities Outputs: • MVR MVP Sequence Plan • Strategic Roadmap of Slices • Additional discovery work
Planning & Next Steps (30–60 min) Objective: Define actions and responsibilities Activities: • Assign follow-ups (technical analysis, interviews, stakeholder review) • Plan next communication steps • Conduct workshop retrospective Outputs: • Action Plan • Feedback Summary • Draft Communication Plan
Prework Checklist: • Customer revenue & usage data by segment • Top Customers Profile: Revenue, usage & other data • List of system capabilities & dependencies • Known customizations by customer • Artifacts to Create or Use: • MVR vs MVP Chart • Segment Impact Matrix • KUCI Assessment Grid • MVR MVP Roadmap Template • Top Customers Profile