What Your Dependency Map Is Telling You
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The single most common reason decommissioning programmes stall is not budget, and it is not governance. It is the moment someone says: "We cannot close that system yet because we do not know what depends on it."
This is a reasonable concern. In a large enterprise estate, systems have a way of accumulating connections: integrations built years ago, data flows set up by teams that no longer exist, dependencies that never made it into the CMDB. A system that looks straightforward to close on paper turns out to have a dozen connections nobody documented.