Lexicon

Legacy Constraints

Kind: constraint

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: lexicon:legacy-constraints

Canonical: Lexicon

A binding limitation imposed by pre-existing legacy systems that a new design must accommodate.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Innovation/Autonomy and before Local Autonomy.

Category

  • Architecture Review Evolution Governance

In tension with

  • Greenfield Development
  • Greenfield Development / Legacy Constraints

Linked from

  • Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
  • The resolutions