Summit 2009

Summit 2009
4-6 May 2009 | Cambridge, MA

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Pre-Conference Workshop

Proven Strategies for SOA Success

Sunday, May 7, 2005
8:30 - 5:30

Leaders: Michael Rosen and Oliver Sims

Many organizations have initiated SOA pilot projects or programs, and most will struggle with getting SOA to live up to its potential to deliver value and agility to their enterprise. A successful approach goes well beyond the technology, and addresses the true barriers to SOA success -- enterprise architecture, organizational change, governance, education, new design approaches and transition issues.

In this full-day workshop you'll discover proven strategies and techniques for implementing SOA -- based on engagements by Cutter Senior Consultants with major enterprises worldwide -- that you can bring to your organization. Mike Rosen and Oliver Sims will start with a set of core concepts for SOA and then build on them to develop the major components of a successful strategy. Special attention will be given to common problem areas including how to design SOA applications, how to integrate SOA with business drivers and decision planning, effective governance, and transition strategies.

Outline:

  1. Core Concepts - Technology and Platform
    • Web services and beyond
    • Integration
    • BPM, Orchestration, Workflow
    • EDA
    • The SOA Platform
  2. Core Concepts II - Services
    • Coupling
    • Granularity and scope
    • Service taxonomy
    • Semantics
    • Contracts
    • SOA and EA
  3. Designing SOA Applications
    • Shared capabilities, shared information
    • Business elements: Resource, Service, Delivery
    • Business alignment: goals, strategy and planning
    • Dependency management
    • Service taxonomy and repository
    • Case study, part 1
  4. Designing Services
    • SOA/EA influences on design
    • Patterns
    • Agile services
    • Interface design
    • Service implementation
    • Case study, part 2
  5. Organizational Issues
    • Federation
    • Governance
    • Service lifecycle
    • Product Line approach
    • Building development capabilities
  6. Transitioning to SOA
    • Continual value-based delivery
    • Pilot project
    • Education and outreach
    • IT development platform
    • Rollout
    • Maturity model
    • Strategy
Summit Workshop: Proven Strategies for SOA Success