Service Oriented Architecture Curriculum Overview
SOA Planning & Management
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Planning for SOA Success: A Manager's Guide
This
solution shows managers how to prepare for each SOA implementation phase. It identifies and explains what the management team responsible for SOA application and architecture projects must know and must do to get ready for the increasingly complex SOA projects they undertake.
Objectives:
- Understanding the four SOA phases of implementation in an organization
- The alternatives available and.
- The decisions to made regarding technology, methodology and sociology
- The issues and challenges to be addressed
- The critical failure points
Target Audience:
Key project leaders and mangers of SOA implementations from both IT and the business areas affected
Execution: Workshop: One day, in conjunction with consulting and mentoring
Planning and Managing SOA Disruption
This
solution mitigates the disruption inherent in SOA implementations. It includes planning, monitoring and managing the organizational, cultural, communication and performance management aspects of SOA initiative.
Objective:
- How the organization structure changes as a result of SOA implementations
- How to determine the organization readiness for change
- How to implement SOA driven organization changes
- How to develop and implement a communication and marketing plan for SOA implementation
- How to recognize and deal with the resistance to change caused by SOA initiatives
- How to effectively deal with conflicts that will arise
- How to build consensus among various business entities
- How to coordinate change across organization and political boundaries
- How to redefine the roles and responsibilities commensurate with the redistribution of power that will occur
Target Audience:
- Key leaders of organizations new to SOA
- Business area leaders of organizations implementing SOA
Execution: Workshop, Two days, in conjunction with consulting and mentoring
Voluntary SOA Project Initiation
T his solution initiates an iteration of SOA implementation that is sponsored and driven from within the Company.
Deliverables:
- Definition of the desired state at the end of an iteration of the SOA implementation
- Definition of the current state
- Assessment of the readiness of the organization to achieve the desired state
- Definition of parameters to be used to measure business benefits
- A macro level work plan for the initiative
Target Audience:
SOA project leaders and managers.
Execution: Consulting
In-voluntary SOA Project Initiation
This solution initiates an iteration of SOA implementation that is mandated from outside of the Company, such as an upstream or downstream supply-chain requirement or mandated from within the corporation due to a parent take-over that requires SOA implementations. In addition to the Assessment of readiness deliverable, it includes definition of 'collateral benefits' that will help to facilitate the acceptance of the mandated SOA initiation.
Deliverables:
- Definition of the desired state at the end of an iteration of the SOA implementation
- Definition of the current state
- Assessment of the readiness of the organization to achieve the desired state
- Definition of 'collateral benefits' which will accrue
- Definition of parameters to be used to measure business benefits
- A macro level work plan for the initiative
Target Audience:
SOA project leaders and managers.
Execution: Consulting
SOA Active Sponsorship
This coaching/mentoring solution defines the essential sponsorship roles and responsibilities required to ensure SOA success. We have found that lack of effective, active sponsorship of SOA initiatives is the single biggest factor that is critical to the success of any SOA initiative. This solution addresses this critical need for successful SOA implementations by coaching and mentoring the Sponsor in accomplishing/delivering key success factors.
Sponsorship Success Factors:
- Definition of a vision for the SOA initiative
- Continuous communication of that vision
- Ongoing SOA advocacy
- Mediation and arbitration of otherwise irreconcilable disputes within and among organization entities
- Monitoring of scope and pace of changes within and among organizations
- Ensuring appropriate resource allocation
- Balancing of SOA initiative risks and rewards
- Balancing of SOA initiative costs and benefits
Target Audience:
SOA Executive sponsor.
Execution: Coaching & mentoring.
SOA Readiness Assessment
This
solution defines and describes the readiness of the client organization to undertake major SOA initiatives. It identifies and analyzes challenges to SOA readiness and identifies and discusses SOA readiness issues, decisions and option.
Deliverables:
- Readiness Work Plan
- Readiness task list
- Task dependencies and sequencing
- Staffing plan, including both internal and external resources
Target Audience:
- IT SOA Project Leaders and Managers
- Business Leaders affected by SOA initiative
Execution: Consulting
SOA Sociology and Methodology Assessment This
solution assesses the methodology and sociology structures required for a successful SOA. Clients receive an analysis of their current state, conclusions and recommendations for improvement, and task lists that describe the improvement projects.
Deliverables - an assessment of:
- Governance strategies and practices
- Business process definition
- Service stewardship
- Negotiation, collaboration and consensus-building practices
- Marketing and communication campaign design and implementation
- Champion identification and initiative sponsorship practices
- Legal issues, service contracts, Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements
- Culture, organization and human resources change planning; and change management practices
Target Audience:
SOA Project Leaders and Business Managers of mature SOA initiatives
Execution: Consulting
SOA Benefits Realization
This
solution occurs at the conclusion of a SOA Cycle iteration. In order to justify future SOA projects, it is essential that the ROI for current initiatives be realized and understood. This solution supports project leaders, managers and the SOA Sponsor to fully realize the benefits achieved and, more importantly, to identify what to do next time to be even more effective in the execution of the initiative.
Deliverables:
- Variance report of projected business benefits verses business benefits realized
- Underlying reasons for variances
- Recommendations to realize the projected business benefits
- Documented recommendations for future SOA projects
Target Audience:
SOA Project Leaders and Business Managers of implemented SOA projects
Execution: Consulting
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