Case study ยท Media
Thirty-plus applications fixed in a month, and a migration back on track
A worldwide media company's Windows OS migration had slipped behind schedule for the most common reason there is: application compatibility. We cleared the backlog in around a month and brought the rollout back to its milestones.
The challenge
One compatibility backlog, holding an entire rollout hostage
The migration itself was sound, but a queue of business applications had not been compatibility-checked against the new Windows build. Until they were, deployment waves couldn't proceed, and each week of delay pushed the programme further from its milestones.
The client needed specialist application engineering capacity, immediately, without a long onboarding runway.
The blocker
Applications awaiting compatibility verification
The approach
A focused engineering sprint, not a programme reset
We deployed senior application specialists against the backlog with a clear, outcome-defined scope: verify, remediate and test every blocking application, fast.
- Every application compatibility-checked against the target Windows build
- Failures remediated by specialist application engineers
- Full testing and documentation before release to deployment
- Backlog cleared in around one month
The result
Back on milestone
With more than 30 applications verified, remediated and tested inside roughly a month, deployment waves resumed and the OS migration returned to its targeted milestones. Sometimes the highest-value engagement is the shortest one.
Time to unblock
From engagement start to a cleared compatibility backlog
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