How will existing behavior be understood?
Ask about source review, operating tasks and examples with expected results. Clarify who decides whether a surprising behavior is required or should change.
Choosing help
Ask how the business will keep working during the change.
A useful proposal explains what will be preserved and how the first improvement will be checked.
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Why this path?
Ask the provider to compare repair, upgrade and phased replacement for the current constraint. A complete rewrite should have a reason beyond the age of the application.
What happens to the records?
Review migrations, reconciliation and ownership while old and new systems coexist. Ask how later changes are protected if the release needs recovery.
What closes the first phase?
Request specific tasks, failure cases and release conditions. Separate investigation findings from an implementation promise when important dependencies remain unknown.
Who owns the result?
Clarify accounts, code, build and deployment instructions, documentation and ongoing charges. The next maintainer needs a usable path into the changed system.