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William M. Ulrich (born c. 1956) is an American business architecture consultant, consultant at Cutter Consortium, director and lecturer, known for development of 'The Systems Redevelopment Methodology' (TSRM) in the 1990s, on legacy systems in the 2000s and more recently on his work on business architecture.

Ulrich started to study at the Western Illinois University in 1974, and obtained his Bachelor of Business, Management Information Sciences in 1978.

After graduation Ulrich started his working in industry. In 1980 he was working for Automated Concepts Inc. on reengineering and reverse engineering. He joined KPMG Peat Marwick in 1983 as Director of Reengineering Strategies, and was promoted into senior management in 1986. In 1990 he founded his own management consultancy firm TSG, INC. Since 2003 he is also became Senior Consultant at Cutter Consortium (now Fellow), and since 2010 president of the Business Architecture Guild. Ulrich lectured at the Northeastern Illinois University, and at the Software Engineering Institute. In the Object Management Group (OMG) he co-chairs the Architecture-Driven Modernization Task Force. In 2016, along with Whynde Kuehn, Ulrich co-founded Business Architecture Associates, Inc., an international training and mentoring company. Ulrich holds Certified Business Architect® certification from the Business Architecture Guild.

The Systems Redevelopment Methodology is developed by Ulrich in the early 1990s. It contained a "set of project management templates and guidelines for transition projects" and it was marketed by James Martin and Company in Reston, Virginia.

The methodology was especially designed to assist organizations "migrate large, aging systems into strategic architectures that support tomorrow's business needs."

In his 2002 "In Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies" Ulrich presents "a step-by-step, phased roadmap to legacy transformation that maximizes business value, while minimizing cost, disruption, and risk. Transformation strategies, organizing disciplines, techniques, and tools reduce the risks of deploying the component-based architectures you need to stay competitive while maximizing the business value of core systems that work."

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