Is Your Software Ready for a Rebuild?

Very few business leaders WANT to rebuild software. It necessarily means significant investments of time, people, money…all without any guarantee that the “transformation” will be all that transformational to your bottom line.

But…sometimes, the cost of still doing what you’re currently doing is greater than the cost of a refactor or a rebuild.

How do you know when you’ve hit that tipping point?

Engineering leaders (or founders) need a keen ability to judge both whether and when a rebuild is necessary. But even the most experienced leaders can struggle with determining when the time is truly right.

Rebuilding too soon means diverting valuable resources away from important software upgrades from innovation efforts, or from other technical projects. Rebuild too late and you’re risking customer attrition, bad reviews, a loss of customer trust, or in some dire cases, a critical system failure.

If things get to a certain point, your app or software can’t recover.

It’s crucial — and we know how difficult it can be — to strike the right balance. You want to refactor or rebuild when the current systems are starting to show their age…but you don’t want to wait until mission-critical features or functionalities are breaking down entirely.

That’s why we created this quiz. Based on our experience building, maintaining, and rebuilding more than 100 software products, we’ve come up with an insightful, actionable guide to help you judge these questions for yourself.

This quiz not only helps you answer “should I rebuild?” It can also pinpoint your software rebuild timeline, too.

Take this 5-question quiz to answer the question: “Should we rebuild our software?“

There are many articles about how to rebuild software… but few of them help you specifically determine whether you should, and the actual timeline for that software rebuild.

So… we decided to fix that!

We developed this quiz to help you sort through all the relevant factors. Your answers will reveal both if and when a rebuild would be the best path forward.

So if your team is asking, “Is it time to rebuild our software?”, you’ll be able to answer with confidence (regardless of whether the answer is a “yes” or a “no”).