| SOA: Preparing Your Business & IT Products - Session 3 |
Overview
One of the most significant problems with using architectures and frameworks is trying to work out how they fit into the current systems. In most cases a current system has to be migrated to the new form as opposed to creating a new system from scratch. For many years, the software industry has advocated the use of Maturity Models (the most widely adopted being the Capability Maturity Model for software development). In the case of SOA, a maturity model is needed to enable organizations to identify the extent to which they either use or could use SOA. The same model can then be used to help organisations plan how to improve their use of SOA.
Apart from being able to describe the level of maturity the model also needs to provide some metrics that are used to measure the level of maturity. It is these measures that an organisation then uses to determine their current level of maturity. Those same metrics are then used to guide an organisation in how to improve their level of maturity to increase business productivity.
Podcast
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Booklet
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Source Materials
The set of source materials available are:
- Slides – Microsoft Powerpoint files
- Booklet – Adobe InDesign files (CS4)
- Podcast – Apple GarageBand (5.0.1)
Useful Links
Useful sites with general material on SOA are available at:
- OSIMM – Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model .pdf document
- Sonic Software – SOA Maturity Model
- Wikipedia – definition of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) in Wikipedia
- Google – search for CMMI under Google
Licensing
The materials developed under this Digital 20/20 project are made available under a Creative Commons license.
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Service Oriented Architecture: Preparing Your Business & IT Products by Colin Smythe, Dunelm Services Limited, June 2009 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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The attribution should be: Colin Smythe, Dunelm Services Limited, June 2009.