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Subject: If BPEL is the answer, what is the question?
Diane, Getting ready for the kick-off meeting on the 16th I just read the BPEL draft for the first time. Having never read this before - my initial impression is - who is the audience here? The Abstract and Introduction mention an awful lot of stuff - but this, along with the business goals are hard to discern. It is not at all clear what the long-term picture is, nor how this works meshes with other OASIS TC's such as CPPA, Access Control, ebMS, CAM, UBL, Registry and more. Some are mentioned - but I sense we need some architecture pictures here. The normal OASIS procedure is to have a kick-off document detailing such scope, focus and mission at a business level. I guess with most of the team already having worked on the prior technical spec' - this important aspect is something that has been internalized and taken for granted. However, for people outside who are now joining the OASIS TC, its vital to know the mission details going forward. I particularly found the Abstract and Introduction to be very difficult to tie into a business environment, or business terms, because they make many many assertions - often without corroboration - and scattered across their text without being gathered into a coherent set. This is definately confusing as to what is exactly intended, when and why at first blush! Also the average CFO, CEO, or CTO I suspect would have very little clue as to what this might be all about as it uses many many technical terms that are hard to fathom or quantify. My sense is this big picture can be distilled here - but we urgently need to have this in front of us to make sure we stay on track and prioritize correctly. I'm sure you share my concern to have good project practice in understanding the business goals ahead of going down into the technical approach to ensure the technical product delivers the required solution. A quick search of the OASIS site will find several example kick-off documents that can be used as good boilerplate (I can send one or two off-line if you need). I hope I'm not the only one here finding this hard! Thanks, DW.
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