Ensure AF senior stakeholders agree on the application’s future. This should be an outcome of the AF domain portfolio application rationalization assessment process.
Ensure AF senior stakeholders agree on the required (and desired) outcomes for the modernization project. Ensure this is clearly and concisely documented and communicated to stakeholders.
Ensure the application baseline is accurately documented. It is best to use an auto discovery tool against the existing production application to create a model of the application. At a minimum, ensure the application code, database, interfaces, network constructs, and cyber/identity and access management mechanisms are documented and understood.