Software Rescue & Maintenance

• The application has been abandoned or poorly documented.
• Releases are unstable and dependencies are unknown.
• An unattended backlog and technical debt make ordinary changes risky.

• A project that builds reliably, with its dependencies and deployment documented
• Recovered deployment knowledge, monitoring or logging where missing, and prioritized risks
• Critical fixes, maintenance, further development, or a documented handover

• A reliable build and deployment process
• Known dependencies, risks, and next changes
• An agreed maintenance or handover arrangement

The first steps are to get the project building locally, identify infrastructure and dependencies, recover deployment knowledge, add monitoring or logging where missing, fix critical defects, document how the application works, and create a practical improvement plan. No replacement is assumed before the risks are understood.