Are you in Shape for SOA?
Blogger: Richard Watson
Are you in shape for SOA this summer? Get ready for the SOA initiative you've always dreamed about by working out with us in the "SOA: Assessment And Planning" workshop at Catalyst North America 2008.
Chris Haddad and I will be presenting tools for allowing you to make an honest and measured assessment of your organization's SOA baseline and a recognition of areas that could be more toned. As an example, here's a checklist we'll be walking through to assess your Incentive Systems:
People alignment with SOA principles
Mark as True [T] or False [F]
- Services publicized
- Sharing encouraged
- Open source mindset is present (i.e., solutions delivered to other teams are documented, evangelized, and supported)
- Business stakeholders expected to define capabilities
- Teams discouraged from creating redundant software assets
- Compliance with corporate standards is expected
We will also be sending you away with box of tools you can use to plan the evolution of service-oriented thinking. Another sneak preview, shown here, gives a checklist for Service Classification meta-data:
Service Classification Meta-data
- Service Overview (e.g. name, description)
- Lifecycle Attributes (e.g. version, version relationships, lifecycle status)
- Classification (e.g. basic, composite, infrastructure, business)
- Endpoint Deployment Attributes (e.g. protocols, location, WS-* specifications)
- Data Model (e.g. XML Schema, WSDL, version, semantics, validation)
- Service Level Requirements and Policies (e.g. availability, capacity, responsiveness, security, transaction rate)
- Mediation (e.g. routing, queuing, caching, transformation)
- Service Dependency Attributes (e.g. services, databases, directories, frameworks)
- Physical Instance Dependencies (e.g. application platform, security, management)
- Business Process Model (e.g. UML diagram, business classification)
- Contract information (e.g. consumers, providers, utilization)
- Usage Guidelines (e.g. time of day, availability, # of users. throughput)
- Accounting or remuneration options (e.g. pay per use, subscription, chargeback amount)
Other tools in that goodie bag include a customizable SOA maturity model, those circuit training assessment surveys and samples for creating your own organization’s SOA roadmap.
