Engagement
The business problem and technical context
Situation
An established financial services company in the Kansas City area had developed internal tools and software products over many years. Its portfolio spanned multiple generations of React, Angular, .NET Framework, and modern .NET, with desktop, service-oriented, microservice, and monolithic architectures.
Business constraint
Source code and project assets were distributed across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and shared-drive files, and the organization did not have a consistent software development lifecycle. Important institutional knowledge was concentrated among long-tenured engineering and IT subject-matter experts, making hiring, onboarding, maintenance, and modernization more difficult.
Why this approach fit
A portfolio and delivery assessment could establish a shared operating model before incremental modernization. This let the organization improve how work moved while respecting the business continuity requirements carried by existing systems.
Data and systems involved
The engagement covered a varied application portfolio, source repositories and project files, software delivery practices, supported framework and library choices, and the knowledge needed to maintain business-critical systems.
Transcendent's role
Transcendent Software introduced an Agile delivery process, helped hire additional software engineers, and developed a plan for shared engineering terminology, standards, supported frameworks, packages, and libraries.
Delivery
Approach
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Assess the application portfolio, repositories, delivery practices, and continuity risks
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Introduce an Agile delivery process
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Help hire additional software engineers
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Develop a plan for shared terminology, standards, supported frameworks, packages, and libraries
Outcome
Over the approximately year-long engagement, the company established a more repeatable software delivery practice, expanded its engineering capacity, and began moving its systems toward shared standards and supported technology foundations.
What this engagement demonstrates
Fractional CTO leadership can align portfolio decisions, delivery practices, hiring, and engineering standards while leaving the internal organization with a practical direction for continuing modernization.