Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Service Based Chaos

A lot of companies that I come across become a victim of their own SOA success. They successfully complete their first project and the word gets out about the potential of SOA. This leads to many groups wanting to take advantage of the benefits of SOA. This is a good thing right???? The problem is processes, governance, and standards are normally an after thought when trying to get the first project out the door.

It is not a big problem during the first project because the team is normally small and the scope is controlled. Once the gates start to open up and new developers outside of the initial project are added with different skill levels chaos normally ensues. This is because there is little to no time to focus on best practices, standards and processes to share knowledge and put controls in place on the new projects. This leads to service based chaos.

Here is a link to a podcast that I did with Oracle that covers this topic and how we help a client avoid issues.

http://streaming.oracle.com/ebn/podcasts/media/10048058_Choice_Hotels.mp3