Free Programming and Tech Demo Project Template
A programming and tech demo project covers the work stages from discovery through release and handover, with cards for the tasks in each phase.
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Modernising a legacy system tends to come with one hard requirement: the business can’t wobble while the code changes. The worry isn’t the rewrite, it’s the week where invoicing, dispatch, or payments fall over because a dependency got missed. This programming and tech demo project gives the work a staged path, so the risky parts get named early and move forward in an order that protects what’s already live, on a tweed-teal board under Lora headings.
The columns move from Discovery and audit into Strategy and design, then through Extraction and replatforming and Data migration rehearsal before Release and harden and Handover and close. Each column holds the cards for that phase, including codebase and integration audits, an API contract for legacy apps, CI/CD work for legacy repos, migration rehearsal with rollback, and post-cutover verification that reconciles transactions.
- Discovery and audit This column holds the audit and inventory cards, including the codebase review, dependency and integration mapping, and build and runtime environment inventory.
- Strategy and design This column covers the planning cards: the cloud re-platform plan, strangler rollout design, the API layer contract for legacy apps, and the database migration and refactor plan.
- Extraction and replatforming This column tracks the build work, from extracting services out of the monolith to rebuilding interfaces behind existing endpoints, re-platforming components, and implementing CI/CD for legacy repos.
- Data migration rehearsal This column runs the migration rehearsal as a set of cards, including the rollback plan, production parity checks, and the cutover runbook documentation.
- Release and harden This column covers the staged cutover and hardening steps, including environment parity checks and post-cutover verification that reconciles transactions.
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What is on this board
6 columns carrying 22 cards. Adding it builds the whole thing as a project in your workspace, with every column and card in place.
| Column | What is in it |
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Discovery and audit | This column holds the audit and inventory cards, including the codebase review, dependency and integration mapping, and build and runtime environment inventory.
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Strategy and design | This column covers the planning cards: the cloud re-platform plan, strangler rollout design, the API layer contract for legacy apps, and the database migration and refactor plan.
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Extraction and replatforming | This column tracks the build work, from extracting services out of the monolith to rebuilding interfaces behind existing endpoints, re-platforming components, and implementing CI/CD for legacy repos.
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Data migration rehearsal | This column runs the migration rehearsal as a set of cards, including the rollback plan, production parity checks, and the cutover runbook documentation.
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Release and harden | This column covers the staged cutover and hardening steps, including environment parity checks and post-cutover verification that reconciles transactions.
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Handover and close | This column closes the work out with runbooks, knowledge transfer with the operations team, maintenance cadence and monitoring alerts, then repository archiving.
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What happens when you install it
- A project is created with its board, 6 columns and 22 cards already there.
- Nothing carries a due date, because a board holds the order the work runs in rather than a calendar. The dates go on once you know when the job starts.
- Every card opens as a task with its own description, assignee, dates, subtasks and files, and columns are renamed, reordered or deleted like any other.
Who it is for
Software teams and consultants doing legacy modernisation work where uptime matters, including API & integrations work and custom software re-platforming.
Questions about this project template
Can you modernise a legacy system without stopping day-to-day operations?
That’s the point of a staged approach, where discovery, design, extraction, rehearsal, and cutover get treated as separate phases instead of one big switch. The board keeps those phases visible so the riskier steps don’t get hidden inside a single “rewrite” task.
What happens if the data migration goes wrong on cutover night?
The Data migration rehearsal column includes a rollback plan and parity checks before any cutover work. The same phase also carries a cutover runbook, so the team can follow a written sequence instead of improvising under pressure.
How do you handle a system nobody has fully documented?
The Discovery and audit column starts with a codebase audit plus mapping dependencies and integrations. That work turns unknowns into a concrete inventory before the API contract, migration plan, or extraction work begins.
What work needs to happen before you start extracting services from a monolith?
The board puts discovery and design ahead of extraction, so the codebase and dependency mapping come first and the rollout plan gets written before modules get pulled out. That ordering matters because interfaces get rebuilt behind existing endpoints as part of extraction.
What should be defined before you build an API layer for legacy apps?
The Strategy and design column includes the API layer contract for legacy apps. That contract gives the extraction and replatforming work a target, so the API work doesn’t drift while other modules change.
What do you need from our people week to week during a re-platforming project?
The board needs whoever is doing the work added to the project and assigned to the cards, so ownership stays clear across phases. Dates also need to be added separately, since the columns show order rather than a calendar.
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