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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] SOA-RM Mention on WebServices.org
Ken SOA is a disruptive technology and as such it is important that people, especially IT, change their perspective. I ran a development group at Hitachi in which we were changing our focus to Web Services, not even SOA. My biggest problems came from the best and most senior engineers. These people had developed expertize in procedural programming and had applied that knowledge to highly distributed systems. Getting them to make the mind shift to SOA was equivalent to getting a person to change religions. To my discredit, I was not successful in getting the top engineer to change. Sigh! Note that the author of the referenced article picked as the best definition of an SOA one from the WIKI, which was technology biased. Unfortunately, I believe that his business audience accepted his definition because they concluded "This is just another one of those technological thingees, so lets move on". In other words they didn't buy it and another group was lost. We need more evangelizing as distasteful as it might be. You and Frank are great at explaning an SOA. Consequently, I propose that you put a more accurate definition on the WIKI. Here's a business manager oriented, not RM although derived from the RM concepts, definition that I have be thinking about. "An SOA is a business approach that enables the wide-spread sharing of business processes to satisfy business requirements, whether the sharing parties are in the same business unit, spread across the organization in different departments or divisions, or even in different companies." (Maybe business requirements should read business needs) **Flinn now ducking incoming flames** Don On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 18:15 -0400, Ken Laskey wrote: > Well you can't please everyone :-| > > Obviously, we tried to say a lot (maybe too much) and didn't consider > the need for an elevator speech. > > Ken > > At 05:51 PM 7/5/2006, Chiusano Joseph wrote: > > Piece is called "Arriving at a definition of SOA" > > > > See > > http://www.webservices.org/weblog/colin_adam/arriving_at_a_definition_of_soa > > (search on "OASIS") > > > > Joe > > > > Joseph Chiusano > > Associate > > Booz Allen Hamilton > > > > 15059 Conference Center Drive, Suite 300 (on assignment) > > Chantilly, VA 20151 > > O: 703-633-3152 > > C: 202-251-0731 > > Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com > > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > / Ken Laskey > \ > | MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 | > | 7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 > | > \ McLean VA > 22102-7508 / > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Don Flinn President, Flint Security LLC Tel: 781-856-7230 Fax: 781-631-7693 e-mail: flinn@alum.mit.edu http://flintsecurity.com
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