MngRisk — A decisional framework to measure managerial dimensions of legacy application for rejuvenation through reengineering

Nowadays legacy system reengineering has emerged as a well-known system evolution technique. The goal of reengineering is to increase productivity and quality of legacy system through fundamental rethinking and radical redesigning of system. A broad range of risk issues and concerns must be addressed to understand and model reengineering process. Overall success of reengineering effort requires to considering three distinctive but connected areas of interest i.e. system domain, managerial domain and technical domain. We present a hierarchical managerial domain risk framework MngRisk to analyze managerial dimensions of legacy system. The fundamental premise of framework is to observe, extract and categories the contextual perspective models and risk clusters of managerial domain. This work contributes for a decision driven framework to identify and assess risk components of managerial domain. Proposed framework provides guidance on interpreting the results obtained from assessment to take decision about when evolution of a legacy system through reengineering is successful.