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« Using SOA to Untangle Spaghetti Oriented Architecture | Main | SOA and the Laws of Unintended Consequences » November 10, 2006Begin Your SOA Journey With a Single Step More grist for the "start small" vs. "bring in the enterprise" debate around SOA launches: A new report in CIO quotes end-users at a recent conference as urging that SOA efforts begin modestly. Russell Rodrigue, senior vice president of business technology planning at TD Banknorth, told attendees at an AMR conference that the SOA journey should begin with a single step: "Start small. Pick a project that’s manageable and well-defined and that you have influence over." The bank adopted SOA to deal with integration with systems of acquired banks. The bank employed WebMethods technology to get newly SOA-enabled systems up and running within days' time. Not everyone agrees that SOA should start on such a small scale, though. I've heard small pilot projects referred to as "lunchroom Web services," since they may not be addressing processes that are of great significance to the enterprise at large. Indeed, a case can be made for treating SOA with the same commitment, discipline, and governance as an enterprise mainframe project. But those with the wallets in organizations, the C-level executives, need to be educated on the why’s of SOA. They’re not going to open up their wallets too widely if they don’t understand what it can deliver. Rapid successes with a limited handful of select services can speak volumes. Posted by joemckendrick in SOA | Digg This | Add to del.icio.us Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry:
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