Software modernization projects are becoming increasingly critical as mainframe hardware ages out, people retire, and skillsets are lost or forgotten. Concurrently, available resources and budgets are usually tight. This leaves management with the challenges of dealing with the sometimes fragile software iron triangle (scope, resources, schedule and quality.) TO further complicate matters, agencies are increasing their cloud consumption as part of modernization. This is fraught with challenges such as getting a viable estimate when cloud vendors make it appear as easy as filling in a web form. Even the definition of cloud must be further quantified to discriminate between public, ...The post Cost & Risk Analysis of Managing Modernization Projects With Cloud and Open Source Considerations appeared first on Galorath, Inc..