This pattern is part of “Patterns of Legacy Displacement”

Extract Value Streams

Identify and separate key value streams

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Many legacy systems implement large swathes of functionality across an organization, they are usually part of many different processes and support many different business capabilities. We can use techniques such as value stream mapping to understand the different value generating activities these existing system(s) support.

Once these value streams are identified it is then possible to incrementally extract and implement them in a new system.