In my company (not the post author) we are in the middle of a modernization project. This is a nice article about how to structure the events of this kind of projects where architecture is a key element.
It is not the first time I see workflows like this for modernization (it is far more lightweight than what it looks like) and I always found interesting how easy this is to turn from modernization to feature development.
Thanks for the comment. I just bought his book to start taking a look. Looks really interesting.