Incremental SOA: Facing Reality, Coping with Change, and Improving Your Chance of Success

by Douglas K. Barry

This Executive Report by Douglas K. Barry describes an incremental service-oriented architecture (SOA) technique that improves project selection in such a way that the chances of success for that project are also improved. Five principles provide the basis of the technique: (1) make projects as small as possible, (2) involve stakeholders appropriately and as much as possible, (3) make decisions as late as possible, (4) reduce the restraining forces within the project as much as possible, and (5) realize that your SOA will never be done.