February 24
Steering the Northwest Passage: Beginning an SOA Initiative
Speaker: Ian Robinson
Best Practices Track, talk 11
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SOA. There's a lot of knowledge out there; but we've never done it. So where do we start? And what should we do?
Based on my experience working with companies in the UK and North America, many of which have mature IT capabilities but little or no experience of SOA, I’ll describe a quick start, “thin-slice” way of beginning an SOA initiative. Starting with a sketch map of the territory ahead, I’ll show how we can populate this map in an agile, iterative manner with business, architectural and technology artefacts, and in so doing:
• establish context, business goals and consensus amongst stakeholders;
• create a long-term vision that joins up the business, architectural and technology views of an SOA initiative;
• deliver working software early and often in support of that vision;
• repeatedly question, prove and refine an initiative's goals and the artefacts that support those goals.
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