You may have noticed that legacy software can sometimes yield two seemingly contradictory truths at the same time.

You know your software needs work. Maybe it's becoming harder to maintain, can't connect to a new system, or depends on technology that's no longer supported. What you don't know yet is how much it will cost to fix those problems.

If you have a Xamarin.Forms application that needs to move to .NET MAUI, the word migration can make the project sound like a complete rewrite.

The software still works, which is usually the first argument for leaving it alone.

Technical debt rarely announces itself as a financial problem.

Every aging software system eventually reaches a financial decision point.

Many organizations know they need to modernize their legacy applications. They also know why they haven't.